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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

This paper proposes a concept of a global currency and introduces a “global currency pricing” specification into a standard N-country open economy macroeconomic model. A global currency is defined as a virtual unit of account that is exclusively used for international trade invoicing and is form...
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

Using a new dataset on sectoral credit exposures covering financial and non-financial sectors in 115 economies over the period 1940–2014, we document the following evidence that corporate debt plays a key role in explaining boom-bust cycles, financial crises, and slow macroeconomic recoveries: (i)...
Keywords: Financial crises, banking crises, credit booms, corporate debt, household debt
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

Using proprietary data from the predominant cryptocurrency exchange in India together with the country’s Household Inflation Expectations Survey, we document a significantly positive association between inflation expectations and individual cryptocurrency purchases. Higher inflation expectations a...
Keywords: Bitcoin, Crytocurrency, Household Finance, Inflation, Stablecoin
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

How do banks respond to geopolitical risk, and is this response distinct from other macroeconomic risks? Using U.S. supervisory data and new geopolitical risk indices, we show that banks reduce cross-border lending to countries with elevated geopolitical risk but continue lending to those markets th...
Keywords: geopolitical risk, bank lending, credit risk, international spillovers
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

How does monetary policy affect mortgage allocation across income groups? Using comprehensive credit registry data from Malaysia (2017-2023), we examine the distributional effects of monetary policy shocks on new mortgage demand, probability of approvals, value of new mortgage originations, maturity...
Keywords: Monetary policy, credit allocation, household finance, mortgage market, Malaysia
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