Guimaraes, Bernardo and Morris, Stephen (2006) Risk and wealth in a model of self-fulfilling currency attacks. Bernado Guimaraes and Stephen Morris, London, UK. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Market participants' risk attitudes, wealth and portfolio composition in°uence their positions in a pegged foreign currency and, therefore, may have important e®ects on the sustainability of currency pegs. We analyze such e®ects in a global game model of currency crises with continuous action choices, generating a rich set of theoretical comparative static predictions related to often discussed but rarely modelled accounts of the onset and timing of currency crises. The model can be solved in closed form and the methods could be used to study other economic issues in which coordination and risk aversion play important roles.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://personal.lse.ac.uk/guimarae/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2006 Bernado Guimaraes and Stephen Morris |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Currency crises, global games, risk aversion, wealth, portfolio. |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty F - International Economics > F3 - International Finance |
| Sets: | Collections > Economists Online Research centres and groups > Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) Departments > Economics |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/4804/ |
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