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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Autore principale: Ranciere, Romain
Altri autori: Tornell, Aaron, Vamvakidis, Athanasios
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/263
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF