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, it is found, has a significant impact on domestic money supply and stock market growth, liquidity and volatility. The …
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-traded sector firms are entirely denominated in the domestic currency. Domestic exchange rate volatility adversely affects the … balance sheets of the traded sector firms, while interest rate volatility creates problems for the firms in the non … traded goods sector also displays greater aversion for exchange rate volatility. …
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Emerging markets are often exposed to sudden stops of capital inflows. What are the effects of monetary policy in such an environment? To answer this question, the paper proposes a model with the typical elements of an emerging market economy. Credit frictions generate balance sheet effects,...
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Using data over the 1973q1-2004q1 period, this paper identifies an important role for the real exchange rate in affecting UK labour market conditions. When the real exchange rate is undervalued, short-run unemployment falls as firms respond to an improvement in domestic competitiveness by...
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In our society today, money's value is measured by what it can buy—its purchasing power—not by its material worth, but it hasn't always been so. · My previous papers Impact of agriculture output on exchange rates and Currency competition-Survival of the fittest dealt with issues surrounding...
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This study examines the sources of currency crises in ASEAN. The empirical findings indicate that reserve inadequacy, increase of bank’s claims on private sector, deteriorating trade balance and misalignment of real exchange rate increase the probability of a speculative attack on a currency....
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Interest rate based tests and savings-investment correlations disagree on the extent of capital mobility in Pacific Rim economies. The apparent success of several East Asian countries in sterilizing capital inflows has also fueled the controversy. This paper argues that previous studies...
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This paper explores the impact of actual exchange rate regimes on fiscal discipline, which we purportedly link to the effect of announcing the peg and to the availability of external funds. To stress this point, the focus of the analysis is emerging markets spanning from the beginning of the...
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In this article, we extend the conditional ICAPM of De Santis and Gérard (1997,1998) using an asymmetric multivariate GARCH specification. The model is estimated, for the period March 1973-March 2003, simultaneously for 8 markets: the world market, 4 developed markets and 3 emerging markets....
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Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important legal mechanism for the encouragement of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. Yet practically no systematic evidence exists on what motivates capital-exporting developed countries to sign BITs earlier with...
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