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Bahaj, Saleem; Reis, Ricardo - 2018 - First draft: October 2017

Swap lines between advanced-economy central banks are a new important part of the global financial architecture. This paper analyses their monetary policy effects from three perspectives. First, from the perspective of the central banks, it shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit...

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Japanese foreign exchange intervention and the Yen/Dollar exchange rate : a simultaneous equations approach using realized volatility

Hillebrand, Eric (contributor); Schnabl, Gunther (contributor) - 2006

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Inflation targeting by debtor central banks in emerging market economies

Löffler, Axel; Schnabl, Gunther; Schobert, Franziska - 2010

Given buoyant capital inflows and managed exchange rates the majority of emerging market central banks have continued to accumulate massive foreign reserves. If left unsterilized, the liquidity expansion can threaten domestic macroeconomic stability. To contain domestic inflation these central...

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China's exchange rate and financial repression : the conflicted emergence of the renminbi as an international currency

McKinnon, Ronald I.; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014

China has been provoked into speeding renminbi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial markets in RMB, the Chinese authorities are essentially trapped into maintaining exchange controls-reinforced by financial repression in domestic interest rates→to avoid an...

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Dollarization of deposits in the short and long run : evidence from CESE countries

Urosevic, Branko; Rajkovic, Ivana - 2016

In this paper, we study the drivers of permanent and transitory deposit dollarization for a sample of CESE countries … permanent dollarization and Minimum Variance Portfolio (MVP) share. This provides an additional empirical validation of the MVP … method as the standard tool for analyzing financial dollarization. In the long run, agents make savings decisions based on …

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Why has the Euro been falling?

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Westermann, Frank - 2001

This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...

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The causal effect of the Dollar on trade

Ma, Sai; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim; Zhang, Shaojun - 2020

This paper establishes a causal link between the dollar exchange rate and international trade flows, employing a new instrument for the U.S. Dollar that is based on domestic U.S. housing activity (Ma and Zhang (2019)). In line with the dominant currency paradigm (Gopinath et al. (2020)), import...

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Vehicle currency pricing and exchange rate pass-through

Chen, Natalie; Chung, Wanyu; Novy, Dennis - 2019

Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter's currency. We then study the relationship between invoicing currency choices and...

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Limits of monetary policy autonomy by East Asian debtor central banks

Löffler, Axel; Schnabl, Gunther; Schobert, Franziska - 2012

Due to buoyant capital inflows East Asian central banks with exchange rate targets accumulate foreign reserves and thereby increase surplus liquidity. East Asian central banks with more flexible exchange rate regimes also face surplus liquidity that mainly emanates from past accumulation of...

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The impact of macro news and central bank communication on emerging European forex markets

Égert, Balázs; Kočenda, Evžen - 2013

We employ two-stage empirical strategy to analyze the impact of macroeconomic news and central bank communication on the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal equilibrium exchange rate based on a monetary model....

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