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The Offshore Renminbi Exchange Rate: Microstructure and Links to the Onshore Market
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Rime, Dagfinn - CESifo - 2014
The offshore renminbi (CNH) exchange rate is the exchange rate of the Chinese currency transacted outside China. We study the CNH exchange rate dynamics and its links with onshore exchange rates. Using a specialized microstructure dataset, we find that CNH is significantly affected by its order...
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High-Frequency Analysis of Foreign Exchange Interventions: What do we learn?
Menkhoff, Lukas - CESifo - 2008
The high-frequency analysis of foreign exchange dynamics is helpful in order to better identify the impact of central bank interventions. Evidence robustly shows that interventions do indeed move the exchange rate level in the desired direction. Interventions increase volatility in the short run...
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Global Liquidity, Risk Premiums and Growth Opportunities
Nicolò, Gianni De; Ivaschenko, Iryna - CESifo - 2009
This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging … evidence of an historical increase in market liquidity since the early 1990s, in part as a result of advances in international … financial integration, but markets have been increasingly exposed to global systemic liquidity shocks. Second, liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051571
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Quoted Spreads and Trade Imbalance Dynamics in the European Treasury Bond Market
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro; … - CESifo - 2010
documents the existence of an asymmetric relationship between market liquidity and trading imbalances: when quoted spreads rise … (fall) and liquidity falls (increases) buy (sell) orders tend to prevail. Risk-averse market-makers, with inventory … characteristics, stock market volatility, macroeconomic releases and liquidity management operations of the monetary authorities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833903
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Securitization of Mortgage Debt, Asset Prices and International Risk Sharing
Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - CESifo - 2009
We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption risk sharing: we find that countries with the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406369
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The Evolution of the East Asian Currency Baskets – Still Undisclosed and Changing
Schnabl, Gunther - CESifo - 2006
Both before and after the Asian crisis, the dollar has been the dominant anchor and reserve currency in East Asia. Due to underdeveloped capital markets and the limited international role of their domestic currencies, the East Asian countries (except Japan) are likely to continue to stabilize...
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Exchange Rate Management in Emerging Markets: Intervention via an Electronic Limit Order Book
Melvin, Michael; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmeling, Maik - CESifo - 2009
This paper describes and analyzes the implementation of a crawling exchange rate band on an electronic trading platform. The placement of limit orders at the central bank’s target rate serves as a credible policy statement that may coordinate beliefs of market participants. We find for our...
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Asymmetric Connectedness on the U.S. Stock Market: Bad and Good Volatility Spillover
Baruník, Jozef; Kocenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - CESifo - 2015
This paper suggests how to quantify asymmetries in volatility spillovers that emerge due to bad and good volatility. Using data covering most liquid U.S. stocks in seven sectors, we provide ample evidence of the asymmetric connectedness of stocks at the disaggregate level. Moreover, the...
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International Credit Flows and Pecuniary Externalities
Brunnermeier, Markus; Sannikov, Yuliy - CESifo - 2015
This paper develops a dynamic two-country neoclassical stochastic growth model with incomplete markets. Short-term credit flows can be excessive and reverse suddenly. The equilibrium outcome is constrained inefficient due to pecuniary externalities. First, an undercapitalized country borrows too...
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Spillovers between Food and Energy Prices and Structural Breaks
Al-Maadid, Alanoud; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2015
This paper estimates a bivariate VAR-GARCH(1,1) model to examine linkages between food and energy prices. The adopted framework is suitable to analyse both mean and volatility spillovers, and also allows for possible parameter shifts resulting from four recent events, namely: 1) the 2006 food...
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