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The insulating properties of flexible exchange rates have long been a highly contentious issue in emerging markets - not least in Asian emerging markets. A number of recent theoretical and empirical studies question whether a trade-off exists between rigid exchange rate regimes and insulation...
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This paper investigates inconsistencies between countries' official exchange rate regime declarations (the so-called de jure exchange rate regimes) and their actual policy (de facto exchange rate regimes). These exchange rate regime gaps decrease the credibility of monetary policy and are...
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This article provides an analysis of the economic cost incurred by the world through the use of the fiat international … reserve currency since the end of the 1971 gold standard system. The article uses the Quantity Theory of Money to provide an … method to estimate the cumulative quantity of this rent by using data on the broad money supply, nominal GDP, and world total …
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From the perspective of Marx's theory of the functioning of the international monetary system, there are inherent … disadvantages in a sovereign currency acting as the world currency. First, the existing model of the single world currency is unfair …, with the country whose sovereign currency functions as the world currency able to obtain huge international seigniorage and …
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Objective: The objective of the article is to determine which exchange rate regime provides higher bilateral trade: fixed rate or currency union. Research Design & Methods: An index was designed based on variables commonly recognised as those that might affect the value of bilateral trade and...
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The effectiveness of different exchange rate systems continues to attract the attention of many scholars, however, most discussions on exchange rate regimes have focused on how the phenomenon affects economic growth, economic stability, financial crises, international tourism, and international...
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Since the mid 1990s, theories of speculative attacks have argued that fixed exchange rate regimes induce excessive borrowing in foreign currency as an optimal response to implicit guarantees that the government will not devalue the domestic currency. Using data on Brazilian firms before and...
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The central bank is one of the main pillars of a country's government and one of the institutions most required to respond to crisis situations in the economy. In this respect, the National Bank of Romania, as the monetary authority of the Romanian state, is constantly subject to such pressure....
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The recent financial crisis proved that financial contagion could spread among countries resulting in disruptive effects. In this paper, by modeling and simulating banking system behavior and linkages across countries, we assess, based on data from the BIS and IMF, the possible outcome of...
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This study highlights some deficiencies of the stock markets' risk legislation framework, and particularly the CESR (2010) guidelines. We show that the current legislative framework fails to offer incentives to financial management companies to invest in advanced models for more representative...
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