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Global Monetary Policy Under a Dollar Standard

Devereux, Michael B; Shi, Kang; Xu, Juanyi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

monetary policy in a world with a dollar standard, defined here as a environment in which all traded goods prices are set in US … particular, the US is essentially indifferent to exchange rate volatility in setting monetary policy, while the rest of the world … the US and the rest of the world, the preferences of the US dominate. That is, the equilibrium is identical to one where …

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On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability

Obstfeld, Maurice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Banking systems have rapidly grown to a point where for many countries bank assets amount to multiples of GDP. As a consequence, government’s capacity to provide stability-enhancing fiscal guarantees against systemic crises can no longer be taken for granted. As regulation of dynamic financial...

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Complexity and Monetary Policy

Orphanides, Athanasios; Wieland, Volker - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The complexity resulting from intertwined uncertainties regarding model misspecification and mismeasurement of the state of the economy defines the monetary policy landscape. Using the euro area as laboratory this paper explores the design of robust policy guides aiming to maintain stability in...

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Credit, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy

Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...

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A Corporate Balance Sheet Approach to Currency Crises

Aghion, Philippe; Bacchetta, Philippe; Banerjee, Abhijit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper presents a general equilibrium currency crisis model of the 'third generation', in which the possibility of currency crises is driven by the interplay between private firms' credit-constraints and nominal price rigidities. Despite our emphasis on microfoundations, the model remains...

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A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules, Adverse Selection and Long-Run Financial Risk

Blommestein, Hans J.; Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Qian, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium macro-finance model with two types of borrowers: entrepreneurs who want to produce and gamblers who want to play a lottery. It links central bank's interest rate policy to expected cash flows of both types. This link enables us to study how the...

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A global monetary tsunami? On the spillovers of US Quantitative Easing

Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary policy measures since 2007. First, we find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1), but not since 2010 (QE2), were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and raising equity markets...

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Why Does the Yield Curve Predict Economic Activity? Dissecting the Evidence for Germany and the United States

Smets, Frank; Tsatsaronis, Kostas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper investigates why the slope of the yield curve predicts future economic activity in Germany and the United States. A structural VAR is used to identify aggregate supply, aggregate demand, monetary policy and inflation scare shocks and to analyse their effects on the real, nominal and...

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Monetary Policy Shocks and Portfolio Choice

Fratzscher, Marcel; Saborowski, Christian; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper shows that monetary policy shocks exert a substantial effect on the size and composition of capital flows and the trade balance for the United States, with a 100 basis point easing raising net capital inflows and lowering the trade balance by 1% of GDP, and explaining about 20-25% of...

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China’s Dominance Hypothesis and the Emergence of a Tri-polar Global Currency System

Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tri-polar and centred around the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting...

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