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Articles by Marlene Amstad
Trade sentiment and the stock market: new evidence based on big data textual analysis of Chinese media
Summary Focus Trade tensions between China and the United States have created volatility in the global stock market in recent years, but their effects are difficult to quantify. News items related to tariffs and other factors, including trade barriers between the two countries, have made the analysis of these effects particularly challenging. For this reason, the literature has thus far mainly analysed case studies that refer to specific episodes with a time horizon of just a few days.
Investors' risk attitudes in the pandemic and the stock market: new evidence based on internet searches
The BIS hosts nine international organisations engaged in standard setting and the pursuit of financial stability through the Basel Process.
China’s corporate defaults at record high - at last!
China’s corporate bond ratings are sharply skewed upward, which is partly explained by the large amounts of bonds by issuers who are mostly linked to the government. This column proposes credit spreads as an alternative, market-based measure of credit risk. It also argues that the main reason for the high credit ratings and low dispersion of credit spreads is the very short and limited history of defaults in China.
Regulating fintech: Ignore, duck type, or code
Two events have shaped the financial system over the past ten years: the Global Crisis and the rise of fintech. But while the lessons learned after the crisis have been widely discussed and the regulatory response broadly agreed upon, the question of whether and how to regulate fintech is a topic of an ongoing policy debate. This column discusses the three basic options that regulators have: ignore it, ‘duck type’ rules into existing regulations, or specifically tailor new regulations.
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