Author/Editor: Yuko Hashimoto, Gee Hee Hong, Xiaoxiao Zhang.

Release Date:September, 2020

How does a shrinking population affect the housing market? In this study, drawing on Japan’s experience, we find that there exists an asymmetric relationship between housing prices and population more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Hashimoto, Signe Krogstrup.

Release Date:April, 2019

This paper assesses the role of bank and nonbank financial institutions’ balance sheet foreign exposures and risk management practices in driving capital flow responses to global risk. Using a more...

Author/Editor: Sangyup Choi, Yuko Hashimoto.

Release Date:March, 2017

We find that data transparency policy reforms, reflected in subscriptions to the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives (SDDS and GDDS), reduce the spreads of emerging market sovereign bonds. To overcome more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Hashimoto, Noriaki Kinoshita.

Release Date:January, 2016

This paper analyzes the nonfinancial corporation (NFC) sector’s financial balance sheets using data available from the OECD. In our sample of 20 advanced economies, corporate debt in percent of more...

Author/Editor: Iuliia Brushko, Yuko Hashimoto.

Release Date:May, 2014

This paper examines the international portfolio flows of European Union. Our analysis includes three dimensions: (1) the level of countries' portfolio investment concentration (those who invest more...

Author/Editor: Yuko Hashimoto, Konstantin Wacker.

Release Date:October, 2012

In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment more...