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Europe, bank finance plays a relatively important role, and efforts have been made at creating a level playing field for …
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Financial markets in Euroland differ from those of a national monetary union in two regards. First, capital markets in general and banking markets in particular show a greater degree of segmentation than national financial markets as a result of information costs and regulatory barriers to full...
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The paper analyses the transmission of global financial shocks to individual member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU), in which monetary policy is delegated to the ECB and financial markets are fully integrated. Using a panel VAR model, we show that the asymmetric effects of global...
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With a view to establishing a Capital Markets Union (CMU), efforts to integrate (private) capital markets and private risk-sharing in the European Union are underway. However, the single (capital) market will be burdened by a perennial potential threat to sovereign bond market stability in the...
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This paper explores the effects of nominal volatility and limited participation in asset markets on the risk sharing possibilities available to agents. When the set of financial assets is a decision of agents and is constrained by the resources available for investment, limited participation and...
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This paper reviews the East Asian experience with financial integration, how economies in the region have responded to shocks, and what they may do to continue to thrive in the future. It discusses openness to capital flows as a key aspect of financial integration, briefly considering the...
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This paper analyzes the drivers of cross-border bank lending to 49 Emerging Markets (EMs) during the period 1990Q1 … literature has traditionally highlighted the influence of US monetary policy on driving cross-border bank flows, and more … decrease in bank leverage, our results indicate a broad-based overall contraction of cross-border lending if the shock …
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number of weaknesses in the approach taken in the eurozone. In Europe, there was an unresolved tension between the so …
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