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A network model of super-systemic crises
Are financial systems shock absorbers or shock amplifiers? Policymakers and academics have long remained divided over this fundamental question. On the one hand some contend that financial innovation and integration make the financial world a safer place (Greenspan 1999) others argue the opposite by ...
Financial stability, monetary policy, and Central Banking
The financial developments of the last decade have had a large impact on the range of risk diversification contracts available to investors. Based on these complex instruments, the investment possibility frontier was shifted outward and increasingly intricate networks were created. At the same time, ...
Modeling a housing and mortgage crisis
The current crisis has centered on borrower defaults on mortgages and the associated effects on banks’ own credit standing (and in several cases their own default), which in turn led to tightened conditions for lending to new (mortgage) borrowers. Any model that does not incorporate all or most of ...
Defining finacial stability and establishing a framework to safeguard it
The ongoing global financial crisis has been a rude awakening that the current framework for safeguarding financial stability is neither reliable nor effective. The threats to global economic stability caused by the dysfunction of credit and money markets and the weakening of the global banking system ...
Funding liquidity risk in a quantitative model of systemic stability
The global financial crisis of 2007–09 has illustrated the importance of including funding liquidity feedbacks in any model of systemic risk. This paper illustrates how we have incorporated such channels into a risk assessment model for systemic institutions (RAMSI) and it outlines the Bank of England’s ...
¿Tienen los terremotos un impacto inflacionario en el corto plazo? evidencia para una muestra de países
Aun cuando los desastres naturales son eventos de baja frecuencia, su impacto económico puede ser considerable, lo que hace importante su estudio y análisis. En este sentido, Barro (2006, 2009) destaca que las catástrofes económicas de baja frecuencia, como son las crisis financieras y los desastres ...
Crisis financiera y uso de derivados cambiarios en empresas exportadoras
La reciente crisis financiera internacional ha generado varias interrogantes sobre sus efectos en el comercio internacional; en especial, respecto de los mecanismos por los que el sector exportador ha visto resentido su dinamismo y de si las firmas de menor tamaño han sufrido más. Tradicionalmente, ...
A historical perspective on the crisis of 2007-08
The current international financial crisis is part of a perennial pattern. Today’s events echo earlier big international financial crises that were triggered by events in the U.S. financial system. Examples include the crises of 1857 1893 1907 and 1929–33. This crisis has many similarities to those ...
Financial stability monetary policy and Central Banking: an overview
The financial developments of the last decade had a large impact on the management of risk providing more diversified portfolios to investors. Based on these complex financial contracts investors were able to shift the investment possibilities frontier outward however that movement generated intricate ...