Principal-agent problems between corporate parent and subsidiary operations are frequently exacerbated in international settings by exchange rate fluctuations between the foreign subsidiary’s local currency and the multinational corporation’s (“MNC”) reference currency. This article develops a conceptual solution to resolve this international control conundrum using an Economic Value Added (“EV...

In order to better emulate models with divisible money, we enrich existing random-matching models of international currencies with indivisible monies by introducing randomized trades. The concept of equilibrium is the pairwise core in meetings. We show that there exist equilibrium outcomes in which home and foreign currency play distinct roles. Among these are outcomes with higher observed pric...

This paper examines the effect of currency conversion programs from Swiss franc-denominated loans to other on risk for banks in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). franc mortgage proliferated CEE countries prior financial crisis contributed volume non-performing as strongly appreciated during post-crisis period. Empirical findings suggest that loan reduced mismatches francs but increased foreign ...

Economic analyses of of corporate finance, money, and sovereign debt are largely considered separately. I introduce a novel corporate finance framing that focuses on financial constraints at corporate and country levels, making explicit the tradeoffs involved in relying on domestic versus foreign-currency debt to finance investments or government expenditures. The new framework provides new ins...

How does an unexpected domestic monetary expansion affect the foreign economy? Does it induce an increase or a decline in foreign production? In the traditional two-country Mundell-Fleming model, monetary policy has «beggar-thy-neighbor» effects. Yet, empirical evidence from VARs indicates that U.S. monetary policy has positive international transmission effects on both foreign (non-U.S. G-7) o...

Liberalization of foreign exchange regime and instability of national currency are among the major factors that shaped the level and strength of currency substitution in Ukraine. In this paper, a problem of currency substitution is addressed from the point of view of households. It is argued that the most conventional measure of currency substitution, namely the ratio of foreigncurrency denomin...

The standard hypothesis concerning the behavior of asset returns states that they follow a random walk in discrete time or a Brownian motion in continuous time. The Brownian motion process is characterized by a quantity, called the Hurst exponent, which is related to some fractal aspects of the process itself. For a standard Brownian motion (sBm) this exponent is equal to 0.5. Several empirical...

Significant time-varying risk premia exist in the foreign currency futures basis, and these risk premia are meaningfully correlated with common macroeconomic risk factors from equity and bond markets. The stock index dividend yield and the bond default and term spreads in the U.S. markets help forecast the risk premium component of the foreign currency futures basis. The specific source of risk...