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Oil Prices, Exchange Rates and Asset Prices

Fratzscher, Marcel; Schneider, Daniel; Robays, Ine Van - CESifo - 2013

This paper takes a financial market perspective in examining the relationship between oil prices, the US dollar and asset prices, and it exploits the heteroskedasticity for the identification of causality in a multifactor model. It finds a bidirectional causality between the US dollar and oil...

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Nominal and Real Exchange Rate Models in South Africa: How Robust are they?

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012

research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation … monetary model are not fully robust to data frequency and alternative estimation periods, either. Nevertheless, adding openness …

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The Capital Structure of Multinational Companies under Tax Competition

Panteghini, Paolo - CESifo - 2006

This article studies the relationship between debt policies of multinational companies (MNCs) and governments’ tax strategies. In the first part, it is shown that the ability to shift income from high- to low-tax countries affects MNCs’ financial choices. In the second part we show how...

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Speculative Attacks: A Laboratory Study in Continuous Time

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Friedman, Daniel - CESifo - 2008

We examine speculative attacks in a controlled laboratory environment featuring continuous time, size asymmetries, and varying amounts of public information. Attacks succeeded in 233 of 344 possible cases. When speculators have symmetric size and access to information: (a) weaker fundamentals...

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The Bail-Out! Positive Political Economics of Greek-type Crises in the EMU

Fahrholz, Christian; Wójcik, Cezary - CESifo - 2010

The Greek bail-out was highly controversial. An oft-heard assessment is that i) the bail-out was a mistake, ii) the political haggling over it was irrational and iii) the bail-out will create a moral hazard problem. Contrary to this view, our analysis suggests that, given EMU’s present...

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The Eurozone Needs Exit Rules

Fahrholz, Christian; Wójcik, Cezary - CESifo - 2012

This paper argues that the key issue for defining and solving the Eurozone’s (EZ) difficulties lies in readjusting the relationship between the centre and the periphery of the EZ. Our argument proceeds in two steps. Firstly, the basic finance problem of a centre-periphery system is captured by...

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Is Greece Turning the Corner? A Theory-Based Assessment of Recent Greek Macro-Policy

Arghyrou, Michael G. - CESifo - 2014

We use a macro-theory framework of analysis to assess Greek macro-policy with emphasis on the period of the Greek debt crisis. The latter is mainly the result of misguided past internal policies deviating from the policy lessons of modern macroeconomics. The current policy, however, provides a...

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The Impact of Yuan Internationalization on the Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate

Benassy-Quere, Agnes; Forouheshfar, Yeganeh - CESifo - 2013

the euro-dollar exchange rate, within a three-country, three-currency portfolio model. Our static model shows that the … euro-dollar rate, whatever the exchange-rate regime of China. Moving to a dynamic, stock-flow framework, we show that the …

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The Equilibrium Value of the Euro/$ US Exchange Rate: An Evaluation of Research

Stein, Jerome L. - CESifo - 2001

The ultimate object of research concerning the Euro is to answer the following questions: (#1) What is the equilibrium … trajectory of the nominal euro, measured as dollars/euro? (#2) To what extent has the equilibrium nominal euro been determined by … transitory factors in affecting the value of the euro? (#4) Is the euro currently undervalued, and by what criteria? Our …

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Has the Euro Affected the Choice of Invoicing Currency?

Ligthart, Jenny; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - CESifo - 2010

We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our … home currency invoicing after the introduction of the euro. In addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the … role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The econometric analysis shows a significant effect of euro introduction above …

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