Global public goods (GPGs) are goods that are produced locally but have global effects. GPGs are essential for securing global development. The climate and biodiversity crises, pandemics, as well as fragility, conflict and violence are threatening livelihoods and well-being around the world, and...

We demonstrate that foreign institutional ownership (FIO) is associated with stronger stock return sensitivity to the Global Financial Cycle (GFC), indicating greater global co-movement among stocks selected by FIOs compared to those not selected. We conjecture that this may be because (i) FIOs...

Corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings are receiving growing attention in the current literature. However, most empirical studies fail to examine whether corporate ESG ratings are influenced by financial globalization (FG). This study offers a novel perspective by...

This paper studies the international macro-financial implications of U.S. dollar-backed payment stablecoins. These digital assets create a new global safe asset channel that links private money creation and global payment needs directly to U.S. public debt. By reshaping the demand for safe...

We use a dynamic spatial general equilibrium model of international investment and production to investigate the real implications of the last five decades of financial globalization. We introduce a wedge accounting framework to estimate country- and time-varying measures of outward and inward...

We study the spillovers of large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) in the U.S. on financial intermediation in the euro area using bank-level supervisory data and high-frequency identified policy surprises. Our detailed panel data permit us to trace the impact of LSAPs through bank balance sheets. We...

The international co-movement of interest rates reflects correlated business-cycle fluctuations, largely driven by demand shocks. Monetary policy in advanced economies follows domestic mandates - inflation and the output gap - and does not respond to foreign policy shocks. We derive this result...

We describe a novel mechanism via which multinational enterprises (MNEs) can serve to propagate productivity and credit supply shocks across borders. We augment the costly-state-verification model of Bernanke et al. [1999] with the internal capital market constraint of an MNE to analyze the...

We examine how foreign macroprudential tightening transmits through multinational firms' internal capital markets. Using subsidiary exposure to countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) increases, we find that while bank credit to subsidiaries falls 10 percent, parents fully substitute this via...

Once a famous tale of conquest, law and foreign bond markets, the saga of the Silesian Bonds of 1734-37 is missing from the literature on sovereign debt. The Silesian Bonds were among the earliest foreign currency sovereign bonds issued. They go into the market 84 years prior to the 1818...

This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the EU supervisory landscape by combining a comprehensive mapping of supervisory models and authorities with an analysis of capital market players across key sectors, including market infrastructures, asset management, and crypto-asset service...

Quantum computing threatens the security foundations of global financial systems, exposing long-lived data and signed digital assets to "harvest-now, decrypt-later" attacks. While the timeline for cryptographically relevant quantum computers remains uncertain, regulatory signals from the USA,...

The US dollar (USD) has long been the dominant international currency. The euro (EUR), UK pound (GBP), Japanese yen (JPY), and other advanced economy (AE) currencies have played complementary roles to the USD as international currencies, while emerging market and developing economy (EMDE)...

Motivated by the dominant role of the US dollar, we explore how monetary policy (MP) shocks in the United States can affect a small open economy through the expectation channel. We combine data from a panel survey of firms' expectations in Uruguay with granular information about firms' debt...

This study explores the new insights into the integration and dynamic asymmetric volatility risk spillovers between Bitcoin, currency pairs (USD/ZAR, GBP/ZAR and EUR/ZAR), and traditional financial assets (ALSI, Bond, and Gold) in South Africa using daily data spanning the period from 2010 to...

This study investigates how global monetary and oil shocks propagate across advanced and pegged oil economies, focusing on the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates over the period 2015-2023. It examines which transmission channels-liquidity,...

Starting from the Plaza Agreement, which in 1985 proposed to regulate the functioning of the dollar standard, the international monetary system has experienced a series of evolutions following the collapse of the USSR, the development of globalization, culminating in the birth of the WTO and the...

This paper investigates how global uncertainty and macro-financial shocks transmitted to BRICS+ equity markets between April 2016 and July 2025. A vector autoregressive (VAR) framework, complemented by Granger-causality tests, variance decompositions, and impulse response functions, is employed...

Examining the persistence of volatility transmission over an extended timeframe, regardless of specific events, reveals significant importance, as it uncovers the inherent fundamental and structural drivers that give rise to volatility. However, previous research in South Asia is minimal and has...

This study examines the dynamic and nonlinear effects of global interest rate (based on the G7 market) shocks on equity markets in BRICS countries. A World Interest Rate (WIR) index is constructed using principal component analysis of short-term interest rates from developed economies. The...