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Media Sentiment and International Asset Prices

Author/Editor: Samuel P Fraiberger, Do Lee, Damien Puy, Romain Ranciere.

Release Date:December, 2018

We assess the impact of media sentiment on international equity prices using more than 4.5 million Reuters articles published across the globe between 1991 and 2015. News sentiment robustly predicts more...



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Sovereign Bond Prices, Haircuts and Maturity

Author/Editor: Tamon Asonuma, Dirk Niepelt, Romain Ranciere.

Release Date:May, 2017

Rejecting a common assumption in the sovereign debt literature, we document that creditor losses (“haircuts�) during sovereign restructuring episodes are asymmetric across debt instruments. We more...



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Financial Information and Macroeconomic Forecasts

Author/Editor: Sophia Chen, Romain Ranciere.

Release Date:December, 2016

We study the forecasting power of financial variables for macroeconomic variables for 62 countries between 1980 and 2013. We find that financial variables such as credit growth, stock more...



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Inequality, Leverage and Crises: The Case of Endogenous Default

Author/Editor: Michael Kumhof, Romain Ranciere, Pablo Winant.

Release Date:December, 2013

The paper studies how high household leverage and crises can arise as a result of changes in the income distribution. Empirically, the periods 1920-1929 and 1983-2008 both exhibited a large increase more...



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Income Inequality and Current Account Imbalances

Author/Editor: Michael Kumhof, Claire Lebarz, Romain Ranciere, Alexander W. Richter, Nathaniel A. Throckmorton.

Release Date:January, 2012

This paper studies the empirical and theoretical link between increases in income inequality and increases in current account deficits. Cross-sectional econometric evidence shows that higher top more...



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A New Index of Currency Mismatch and Systemic Risk

Author/Editor: Romain Ranciere, Aaron Tornell, Athanasios Vamvakidis.

Release Date:November, 2010

This paper constructs a new measure of currency mismatch in the banking sector that controls for bank lending to unhedged borrowers. This measure explicitly takes into account the indirect exchange more...



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Inequality, Leverage and Crises

Author/Editor: Romain Ranciere, Michael Kumhof.

Release Date:November, 2010

The paper studies how high leverage and crises can arise as a result of changes in the income distribution. Empirically, the periods 1920-1929 and 1983-2008 both exhibited a large increase in the more...



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Power Laws in Firm Size and Openness to Trade : Measurement and Implications

Author/Editor: Andrei A. Levchenko, Julian Di Giovanni, Romain Ranciere.

Release Date:April, 2010

Existing estimates of power laws in firm size typically ignore the impact of international trade. Using a simple theoretical framework, we show that international trade systematically affects the more...



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Country Insurance: The Role of Domestic Policies : The Role of Domestic Policies

Release Date:April, 2007

This paper focuses on what countries can do on their own—that is, on the role of domestic policies—with respect to country insurance. Member countries are routinely faced with a range of shocks that more...



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The Optimal Level of International Reserves for Emerging Market Countries : Formulas and Applications

Author/Editor: Romain Ranciere, Olivier Jeanne.

Release Date:October, 2006

We present a model of the optimal level of international reserves for a small open economy that is vulnerable to sudden stops in capital flows. Reserves allow the country to smooth domestic more...



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