Government Credit Allocation
In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 485
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In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 485
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w31420
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In: IMF Working Paper, S. 1-37
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This paper examines how credit derivatives have changed the construction of an efficient portfolio. Credit derivatives provide a way of gaining exposure to credit risk alone, to the exclusion of interest rate risk. They also permit a relatively easy use of leverage. We examine two types of allocation: the first is a conventional investment in government bonds, corporate bonds (investment grade and high yield) and equities in the United States; the second replaces corporate bonds with credit derivatives, which may also be leveraged. We look at past data on returns, risk and correlations of these investments, and we show that the credit risk component seems to have a strongly diversifying effect relative to the traditional asset classes, i.e. equities and government bonds. We then compute efficient frontiers within a standard mean-variance framework. The results show the advantages of credit derivatives for portfolio diversification, and the usefulness of leveraging this investment to extend the limits of the efficient frontier. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published
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In: OMEGA-D-22-00450
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In: European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 864/2022
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w19296
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In: Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-108
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In: IMF Working Papers v.Working Paper No. 09/270
We employ a unique data set containing bank-specific information to explore how foreign bank entry determines credit allocation in emerging markets. We investigate the impact of the mode of foreign entry (greenfield or takeover) on banks' portfolio allocation to borrowers with different degrees of informational transparency, as well as by maturities and currencies. The impact of foreign entry on credit allocation may stem from the superior performance of foreign entrants (""performance hypothesis""), or reflect borrower informational capture (""portfolio composition hypothesis""). Our results
In: IMF Working Paper No. 19/207
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