Staff research, Publications
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December 21, 2008
Financial System Review - December 2008
The turmoil in global financial markets entered a new phase in September, moving to a more acute and broad-based loss of confidence in the context of a series of failures and near-failures of large financial institutions in the United States and Europe. -
Futures Markets, Oil Prices and the Intertemporal Approach to the Current Account
The intertemporal approach to the current account suggests modeling movements in the current account in a forward-looking, dynamic framework. In this framework, the current account reflects consumption smoothing of agents that lend and borrow from the rest of the world in the face of transitory shocks to income. -
December 9, 2008
Senior Loan Officer Survey - Fourth-Quarter 2008
Survey respondents reported a further widespread tightening in lending conditions. Respondents attributed the tightening of lending conditions mainly to concerns about the general economic outlook, although a worsening of industry-specific factors was also cited as a contributing cause. -
How Important Is Liquidity Risk for Sovereign Bond Risk Premia? Evidence from the London Stock Exchange
This paper uses the framework of arbitrage-pricing theory to study the relationship between liquidity risk and sovereign bond risk premia. The London Stock Exchange in the late 19th century is an ideal laboratory in which to test the proposition that liquidity risk affects the price of sovereign debt.