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Balance Sheet Effects On Monetary And Financial Spillovers: The East Asian Crisis Plus 20, Joshua Aizenman, Menzie D. Chinn, Hiro Ito
Balance Sheet Effects On Monetary And Financial Spillovers: The East Asian Crisis Plus 20, Joshua Aizenman, Menzie D. Chinn, Hiro Ito
Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations
We study how the financial conditions in the Center Economies [the U.S., Japan, and the Euro area] impact other countries over the period 1986 through 2015. Our methodology relies upon a two-step approach. We focus on five possible linkages between the center economies (CEs) and the non-Center economics, or peripheral economies (PHs), and investigate the strength of these linkages. For each of the five linkages, we first regress a financial variable of the PHs on financial variables of the CEs while controlling for global factors. Next, we examine the determinants of sensitivity to the CEs as a function of country-specific …