Are Asset Price Guarantees Useful for Preventing Sudden Stops?A Quantitative Investigation of the Globalization Hazard-Moral Hazard Tradeoff

By Enrique G. Mendoza, Ceyhun Bora Durdu

March 1, 2006

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Enrique G. Mendoza, and Ceyhun Bora Durdu. Are Asset Price Guarantees Useful for Preventing Sudden Stops?A Quantitative Investigation of the Globalization Hazard-Moral Hazard Tradeoff, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

An implication of the "globalization hazard" hypothesis is that sudden stops could be prevented by offering foreign investors price guarantees on emerging markets assets. These guarantees create a tradeoff, however, because they weaken globalization hazard by creating international moral hazard. We study this tradeoff using an equilibrium asset-pricing model. Without guarantees, margin calls and trading costs cause Sudden Stops driven by Fisher's debt-deflation process. Price guarantees prevent this deflation by propping up foreign asset demand, but their effectiveness and welfare implications depend critically on the price elasticity of foreign demand and on making the guarantees contingent on debt levels.

Subject: Asset prices, Consumption, Moral hazard, Stocks, Sudden stops

Keywords: Equity price, Present value, Price guarantee, Real interest rate, WP

Publication Details

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40
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Working Paper No. 2006/073
Stock No:

WPIEA2006073
ISBN:

9781451863338
ISSN:

1018-5941

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