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evidence, however, that speculative demand shifts played an important role during earlier oil price shock episodes including …
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A popular view is that the surge in the price of oil during 2003-08 cannot be explained by economic fundamentals, but …, there is strong evidence that the co-movement between spot and futures prices reflects common economic fundamentals rather …
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A common view in the literature is that the effect of energy price shocks on macroeconomic aggregates is asymmetric in energy price increases and decreases. We show that widely used asymmetric vector autoregressive models of the transmission of energy price shocks are misspecified, resulting in...
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This paper investigates the relationship between time variations in output and inflation dynamics and monetary policy in the US. There are changes in the structural coefficients and in the variance of the structural shocks. The policy rules in the 1970s and 1990s are similar as is the...
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during crises depends on the tail properties of the fundamentals’ distribution. We denote crisis linkages as either strong or … crisis levels, the probability that the other currency breaks down as well vanishes asymptotically if the fundamentals … fundamentals. …
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exchange rate, not by measurable macroeconomic fundamentals. This motivates a theoretical analysis of exchange rate regimes … to lower exchange rate volatility without altering macroeconomic fundamentals. …
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questionnaire evidence. We find that fund managers and FX dealers differ significantly. Fund managers rely more on fundamentals …
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broadens the set of fundamentals to nonmonetary variables, including unemployment or the state of the banking sector, and even … "softer" fundamentals such as the reputation of the policymaker and the rules of the game played by the participants in a … fixed exchange rate arrangement. It also suggests that the relationship between the economic fundamentals and devaluation …
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This paper examines the exchange rate predictability stemming from the equilibrium model of international financial adjustment developed by Gourinchas and Rey (2007). Using predictive variables that measure cyclical external imbalances for country pairs, we assess the ability of this model to...
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Do exchange rates react to exogenous capital movements? We explore this issue based on the redefinition of the MSCI international equity indices announced on 10 December 2000 and implemented in two steps on 30 November 2001 and 31 May 2002. The index changes implied major changes in the...
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