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tests and multivariate multinomial logit models. The survey data suggests that risk-loving, wealthy, and married households … loan in general. These findings may partially assuage policy concerns about household default risk on foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925052
tests and multivariate multinomial logit models. The survey data suggests that risk-loving, wealthy, and married households … loan in general. These findings may partially assuage policy concerns about household default risk on foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005091296
, including the level of policy rates at the time of the release, and risk conditions: government bond yields increase in response … to "good news", but less so when risk is elevated. Risk conditions matter since they can capture the effects of … objectives of central banks, and the effect of news announcements on the risk premium. …
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model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk of firm … credit risk. We then test the implications of our model by using a 2005 survey with responses from 9,655 firms in 26 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925048
Motivated by concerns over foreign currency exposures of banks in Emerging Europe, we examine the currency denomination of business loans made in Bulgaria during the period 2003-2007. We analyze a unique dataset including information on the requested and granted currency for more than hundred...
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We model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk … switch to foreign currency loans, as they do not bear the full cost of the corresponding credit risk. Thus information …
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The Euro Crisis has stopped the process of the European financial integration and triggered a strong repatriation of debt from foreign to domestic investors. We investigate this empirical pattern in light of competing theories of cross-border portfolio allocation. Three empirical regularities...
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model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk of firm … credit risk. We then test the implications of our model by using a 2005 survey with responses from 9,655 firms in 26 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991322
Transition finance offers a flexible approach for development partners to respond to the changing financial needs of developing countries undergoing transition. The transition finance ABC methodology, part of the transition finance toolkit, provides methodological guidance, metrics, data...
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In this paper, we examine the extent to which market structure and the way in which it affects pricing decisions of profit-maximizing firms can explain incomplete exchange rate passthrough. To this purpose, we evaluate how pass-through rates vary across trade partners and sectors depending on...
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