 | Asian Financial Integration : Trends and Interruptions Author/Editor: Eduardo Borensztein, Prakash Loungani. Release Date:January, 2011 The paper compares trends in financial integration within Asia with those in industrialized countries and other regional groups. Declines in cross-country dispersion in equity returns and interest more...
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 | Macro-Hedging for Commodity Exporters Author/Editor: Eduardo Borensztein, Damiano Sandri, Olivier Jeanne. Release Date:October, 2009 This paper uses a dynamic optimization model to estimate the welfare gains of hedging against commodity price risk for commodity-exporting countries. The introduction of hedging instruments such as more...
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 | The Costs of Sovereign Default Author/Editor: Eduardo Borensztein, Ugo Panizza. Release Date:October, 2008 This paper evaluates empirically four types of cost that may result from an international sovereign default: reputational costs, international trade exclusion costs, costs to the domestic economy more...
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 | Debt Sustainability under Catastrophic Risk : The Case for Government Budget Insurance Author/Editor: Eduardo A Cavallo, Eduardo Borensztein, Patricio Valenzuela. Release Date:February, 2008 Natural disasters are an important source of vulnerability in the Caribbean region. Despite being one of the more disaster-prone areas of the world, it has one of the lowest levels of insurance more...
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 | Sovereign Ceilings "Lite"? The Impact of Sovereign Ratings on Corporate Ratings in Emerging Market Economies Author/Editor: Eduardo Borensztein, Patricio Valenzuela, Kevin Cowan. Release Date:April, 2007 Although credit rating agencies have gradually moved away from a policy of never rating a private borrower above the sovereign (the sovereign ceiling) it appears that sovereign ratings remain a more...
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 | Sovereign Debt Structure for Crisis Prevention Author/Editor: Eduardo Borensztein, Olivier Jeanne, Paolo Mauro, Jeronimo Zettelmeyer, Marcos Chamon. Release Date:January, 2005 The debate on government debt in the context of possible reforms of the international financial architecture has thus far focused on crisis resolution. This paper seeks to broaden this debate. It more...
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 | Assessing Early Warning Systems : How Have they Worked in Practice? Author/Editor: Andrew Berg, Eduardo Borensztein, Catherine A Pattillo. Release Date:March, 2004 Since 1999, the IMF's staff has been tracking several early-warning-system (EWS) models of currency crisis. The results have been mixed. One of the long-horizon models has performed well relative to more...
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 | An Evaluation of Monetary Regime Options for Latin America Author/Editor: Andrew Berg, Paolo Mauro, Eduardo Borensztein. Release Date:December, 2002 We assess monetary regime options for Latin American countries. The costs of a common currency are likely to outweigh its benefits, as those countries face diverse economic shocks, do not trade much more...
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 | Reviving the Case for GDP-Indexed Bonds Author/Editor: Eduardo Borensztein, Paolo Mauro. Release Date:September, 2002 This paper seeks to revive the case for countries to self-insure against economic growth slowdowns by issuing GDP-indexed bonds. We simulate the effects of GDP-indexed bonds under different more...
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 | Monetary Independence in Emerging Markets : Does the Exchange Rate Regime Make a Difference? Author/Editor: Thomas Philippon, Jeronimo Zettelmeyer, Eduardo Borensztein. Release Date:January, 2001 This paper compares the impact of shocks to U.S. interest rates and emerging market bond spreads on domestic interest rates and exchange rates across several emerging market economies with different more...
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