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| Number | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogoff (1996) | PPP holds in the very long run (3-5 year mean reversion) but is useless in the short-term. Real exchange rates are highly volality despite theory predicting stability. |
| 2 | Fama (1984) | High IR currencies appreciate rather than dep which is the opposite of UIP. this means carry trades are profitable which under UIP it should technically not occur. |
| 3 | Reinhart and Rogoff (2009) | High government debt consistently surpasses soverign default and banking crises across history. Countries serially default which impairs growth once debt/GDP exceeds sustainable levels. |
| 4 | Calvo (1998) | Current account deficits funded by short-term caputal inflows can reverse abruptly forcing devaluation and recessions. E.g Turkey 2018 which had a 40% dep in months |
| 5 | Baker, Bloom & Davis (2016) | Constructed an index measuring economic policy uncertainty from news, expiring tax provisions and forecaster disagreement. High EPU measurably reduces investment and hiring, indicating political uncertainty has real econmic costs. |
| 6 | Maurco (1995) | Empirically shown that higher corruption levels significantly reduce investement ratios and growth. First study which quantified corrption level as an eceonomic risk factor and not just a moral issue |
| 7 | Stulz (1999) | When capital markets intergrate, investors diversify globally so only world systemtic risk is placed and not domestic risk which reduces RR and thereby reduces cost of equity. |
| 8 | Bekaert & Harvey (2000) | Provided evidence that capital markets opening redcues cost of equity supporting ICAPM prediction. |
| 9 | Coffee (1999) | shows cross listing is not just about capital access but also signals governance quality and credibly commits frism to higher investor production standards. |
| 10 | Toyota | every 1 yen strengthening against the USD costs 35 billion yen in annual operating profit therefore manufactures globablly creating a natural hedge. |