International Financial Flows and the Risk-Taking Channel
In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1152
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In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1152
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In: Bank of Italy Occasional Paper No. 270
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In: Bank of Italy Occasional Paper No. 201
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In: IMF Working Papers
This paper investigates the role played by emerging Asia in the emergence and evolution of the global trade imbalances. Based on simulations in a general equilibrium model of the world economy, we find that a productivity slowdown in the non-tradable sector of these economies in the second half of the 1990s fits regional macroeconomic developments relatively well, but has limited spillover effect to the United States trade balance. In contrast, an increase in the desired level of emerging Asia net foreign assets starting in 2001 not only fits regional developments relatively well, but also has
In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1286
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In: Asia and China in the Global Economy, p. 321-349
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic impact of China's 2009-2010 fiscal stimulus package by simulating a dynamic general equilibrium multi-country model of the world economy, showing that the effects on China's economic activity are sizeable: absent fiscal stimulus China's GDP would be 2.6 and 0.6 percentage points lower in 2009 and 2010, respectively. The effects are stronger under a US dollar peg because of the imported loose monetary policy stance from the United States. Higher Chinese aggregate demand stimulates higher (gross and net) imports from other regions, in particular from Japan and the rest of the world, and, only to a lesser extent, from the United States and the euro area. However, the overall GDP impact of the Chinese stimulus on the rest of the world is limited. These results warn that a fiscal policydriven increase in China's domestic aggregate demand associated with a more flexible exchange rate regime have only a limited potential to contribute to an orderly resolution of global trade and financial imbalances.
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In: IMF Working Papers, p. 1-40
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We study equity price volatility in general equilibrium with news shocks about future productivity and monetary policy. As West (1988) shows, in a partial equilibrium present discounted value model, news about the future cash flow reduces asset price volatility. We show that introducing news shocks in a canonical dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model may not reduce asset price volatility under plausible parameter assumptions. This is because, in general equilibrium, the asset cash flow itself may be affected by the introduction of news shocks. In addition, we show that neglecting to acc
In: IMF Working Papers
We study exchange rate and equity price dynamics, in general equilibrium, in the presence of news shocks about future productivity and monetary policy. We identify a condition under which these asset prices become more volatile without affecting the volatility of the underlying processes-a positive correlation between news and current shocks. This condition also explains why persistent underlying processes generate volatile asset prices. In addition, we show that the correlation between exchange rate and equity returns depends critically on the currency denomination of the equity return and th
In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1398
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In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1366
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In: Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 1156
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In: Journal of economic dynamics & control, Volume 35, Issue 12, p. 2132-2149
ISSN: 0165-1889
In: Journal of policy modeling: JPMOD ; a social science forum of world issues, Volume 33, Issue 6, p. 787-803
ISSN: 0161-8938