A New Index of Currency Mismatch and Systemic Risk /

This paper constructs a new measure of currency mismatch in the banking sector that controls for bank lending to unhedged borrowers. This measure explicitly takes into account the indirect exchange rate risk that banks undertake when they lend to borrowers that will not be able to repay in the event...

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Autor Principal: Ranciere, Romain
Outros autores: Tornell, Aaron, Vamvakidis, Athanasios
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/263
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF