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Requirements for successful currency regimes: the Dutch and Thai experiences

Berben, Robert-Paul; Berk, Jan Marc - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2002

requirements for successful currency regimes, in particular requirements for exchange rate stability. In addition, it aims at …

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Early warning for currency crises: what is the role of financial openness?

Frost, Jon; Saiki, Ayako - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2013

constructed gravity-based contagion index to assess the importance of these factors in the run-up to currency crises. Using a … robust indicator, reducing the probability of currency crisis for advanced economies, but less so for EMEs. Second, surges in … gross (but not net) capital inflows in general increase the risk of a currency crisis, but looking at a disaggregated level …

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Public feed back for better banknote design 2

Heij, Hans A.M. de - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2007

Developers of new banknotes can optimise banknote design by making use of public feedback, strategic communication policy, a design philosophy and the stakeholders' approach reflected in a Programme of Requirements. The synthesis of these four elements will lead to new design concepts for...

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Banknote design for the visually impaired

Heij, Hans de - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2009

The visually impaired are divided in three subgroups: colour-blind, partially sighted and blind people. Their first needs are useful denomination features rather than security features, as they help them in determining a banknote's value. This study provides a historical overview of banknote...

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Banknote design for retailers and public

Heij, Hans de - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2010

Two stakeholders of banknote design are discussed, retailers and the general public. A retailer on average receives around 120 banknotes a day. A security check should be effected in less than two seconds and avoid discussion with the client. A private person on average receives one or two...

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Dissent and Disagreement on the Fed's FOMC: Understanding Regional Affiliations and limits to Transparency

Meade, Ellen - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2006

This paper addresses two important, but distinct, issues in monetary policy. The first issue concerns regional influences on voting within a monetary policy committee. In a committee that includes representatives from different regions or countries, is there a regional element to the monetary...

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Structural convergence and monetary integration in Europe

Coevering, Clement van de - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2003

In the run-up to EMU, academic economists generally concluded the EU as a whole was not an optimum currency area (OCA … on optimum currency areas to clarify the concept of structural convergence in the context of monetary integration. In …

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Inside the Impossible Triangle:Monetary Policy Autonomy in a Credible Target Zone

Jansen, W. Jos - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2003

This paper examines the trade-off between exchange rate stability and monetary autonomy for a target zone. Using the guilder-mark target zone in the pre-EMU period as a case study, we empirically estimate how much policy discretion the Dutch central bank still enjoyed and how much had been ceded...

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The role of regional information in the optimal composition of a committee

Maier, Philipp; Bierut, Beata; Berben, Robert-Paul - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2003

We analyse the optimal composition of a federal or supra-national committee. The representation of regional (national) entities in federal committees is typically motivated by their superior knowledge of local conditions. Using this argument, we formally model the optimal composition of a...

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The financial benefits of the IMF

Bakker, Age; Schrijvers, Martijn - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2000

The IMF provides loans to countries in financial distress at a relatively low interest rate. In this article we calculate how much the seven largest debtors to the IMF have saved on interest payments during the Asian crisis and its aftermath. We explain how the IMF can charge these low interest...

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