Rashad Ahmed

Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

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1.

Does Sovereign Default Risk Explain Cryptocurrency Adoption? International Evidence from Mobile Apps

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Dec 2024
Rashad Ahmed, Stephen A. Karolyi and Leili Pour Rostami
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and University of Massachusetts Boston
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sovereign debt, consumer finance, cryptocurrency, mobile apps, fintech

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Do Foreign Yield Curves Predict U.S. Recessions and GDP Growth?

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Do Foreign Yield Curves Predict U.S. Recessions and GDP Growth?

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 May 2022 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2023
Rashad Ahmed and Menzie David Chinn
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and University of Wisconsin, Madison - Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Economics
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Common factors, Global interest rates, Leading indicator, Spillovers

Do Foreign Yield Curves Predict U.S. Recessions and GDP Growth?

NBER Working Paper No. w30737
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2023
Rashad Ahmed and Menzie David Chinn
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and University of Wisconsin, Madison - Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and Department of Economics
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Dollar Reserves and U.S. Yields: Identifying the Price Impact of Official Flows

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Dollar Reserves and U.S. Yields: Identifying the Price Impact of Official Flows

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 18 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Rashad Ahmed and Alessandro Rebucci
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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Bayesian VARs; Foreign official flows; Global savings glut; Identification via heteroskedasticity; Interest rate conundrum; International reserves; U.S. Dollar; SVARs

Dollar Reserves and U.S. Yields: Identifying the Price Impact of Official Flows

NBER Working Paper No. w30476
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Rashad Ahmed and Alessandro Rebucci
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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Par for the Course: Public Information and Stable Coin Runs

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Sep 2023
Rashad Ahmed, Iñaki Aldasoro and Chanelle Duley
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and University of Auckland Business School
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Stablecoins, crypto, global games, bank runs

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Foreign-borne Interest Rate Risk

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 06 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2025
Rashad Ahmed
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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Deposit beta, Eurodollars, Global banks, International spillovers JEL Classifications: E52

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Flights-to-Safety and Macroeconomic Adjustment in Emerging Markets: The Role of U.S. Monetary Policy

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Rashad Ahmed
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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Tail Risk, Risk-off, International Capital Flows, Financial Spillovers, Monetary policy

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Commodity Currencies and Causality: Some High-Frequency Evidence

Economics Letters, Vol. 189, No. 109016, 2020
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
Rashad Ahmed
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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Commodities, Exchange Rates, Terms of Trade, Oil Price

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Monetary Policy Spillovers under Intermediate Exchange Rate Regimes

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 24 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
Rashad Ahmed
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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International Reserves, Capital Flows, Financial Openness, International Spillovers, Exchange Rates, Trilemma, International Finance, Monetary Policy Shocks

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Regional Heterogeneity and U.S. Presidential Elections

CESifo Working Paper No. 8615
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 19 Oct 2020
Rashad Ahmed and M. Hashem Pesaran
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and University of Southern California - Department of Economics
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voter turnout, popular and electoral college votes, simultaneity and recursive identification, high dimensional forecasting models, Lasso, OCMT

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Global Commodity Prices and Macroeconomic Fluctuations in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 02 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2023
Rashad Ahmed
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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Zero Lower Bound, Business Cycles, Commodities, Monetary Policy

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Losing traction? The real effects of monetary policy when interest rates are low

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
Rashad Ahmed, Claudio E. V. Borio, Piti Disyatat and Boris Hofmann
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Research and Policy Analysis, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research, Bank of Thailand and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Monetary and Economic Department
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Monetary policy, low interest rates, monetary transmission mechanism

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On the Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Reserves During the 2021-22 U.S. Monetary Tightening Cycle

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On the Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Reserves During the 2021-22 U.S. Monetary Tightening Cycle

NBER Working Paper No. w30935
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2023
Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman, Jamel Saadaoui and Gazi Salah Uddin
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), University of Southern California - Department of Economics, Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Linkoping University - Department of Management and Engineering Division
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On the Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Reserves During the 2021-22 U.S. Monetary Tightening Cycle

Economics Letters, volume 233, 2023[10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111367]
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2025
Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman, Jamel Saadaoui and Gazi Salah Uddin
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), University of Southern California - Department of Economics, Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis and Linkoping University - Department of Management and Engineering Division
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International Reserves, Trilemma, Global Financial Cycle, Currency Risk, Spillovers

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Sectoral Debt Capacity and Business Cycles: Developing Asia and the World Economy

Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 681
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 May 2023
Bada Han, Rashad Ahmed, Yothin Jinjarak and Joshua Aizenman
Bank of Korea, Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Asian Development Bank and University of Southern California - Department of Economics
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household debts, corporate debts, public debts, financial stability, credit cycles

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Accounting for Global Covid-19 Diffusion Patterns, January-April 2020

NBER Working Paper No. w27185
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 18 May 2020 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2023
Yothin Jinjarak, Rashad Ahmed, Sameer Nair-Desai, Weining Xin and Joshua Aizenman
Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka - School of Economics & Finance, Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Stanford University Institute for Economic Policy Research, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and University of Southern California - Department of Economics
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Pandemic Shocks and Fiscal-Monetary Policies in the Eurozone: Covid-19 Dominance During January - June 2020

NBER Working Paper No. w27451
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2023
Yothin Jinjarak, Rashad Ahmed, Sameer Nair-Desai, Weining Xin and Joshua Aizenman
Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka - School of Economics & Finance, Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Stanford University Institute for Economic Policy Research, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and University of Southern California - Department of Economics
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Sectoral Debt and Global Dollar Cycles in Developing Economies

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Sectoral Debt and Global Dollar Cycles in Developing Economies

IMF Working Paper No. 2024/030
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Feb 2024
Bada Han, Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak
Bank of Korea, Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), University of Southern California - Department of Economics and Asian Development Bank
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Sectoral Debt, Household Debt, Dollar Cycle, Emerging Markets

Sectoral Debt and Global Dollar Cycles in Developing Economies

NBER Working Paper No. w32174
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 26 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2024
Bada Han, Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak
Bank of Korea, Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), University of Southern California - Department of Economics and Asian Development Bank
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Inflation and Exchange Rate Targeting Challenges Under Fiscal Dominance

NBER Working Paper No. w25996
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 01 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2023
Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman and Yothin Jinjarak
Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), University of Southern California - Department of Economics and Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka - School of Economics & Finance
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