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A reappraisal of the border effect on relative price volatility

Cheung, Yin-Wong (contributor); Lai, Kon S. (contributor) - 2006

Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and … that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect …, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price volatility can lead to significant bias in measuring the border …

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Oil prices, exchange rates and interest rates

Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2019

There has been much interest in the relationship between the price of crude oil, the value of the U.S. dollar, and the U.S. interest rate since the 1980s. For example, the sustained surge in the real price of oil in the 2000s is often attributed to the declining real value of the U.S. dollar as...

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Monetary policy, model uncertainty and exchange rate volatility

Markiewicz, Agnieszka - 2010

This paper proposes an explanation of the shifts in the volatility of exchange rate returns that relies on standard … may lead agents to focus excessively on a subset of fundamental variables. As a result, exchange rate volatility is mainly … determined by the dynamics of this subset of fundamentals. As agents switch between models the nominal exchange rate volatility …

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Volatility transmission in emerging European foreign exchange markets

Bubák, Vít; Kočenda, Evžen; Zikes, Filip - 2010

This paper studies the dynamics of volatility transmission between Central European currencies and euro/dollar foreign … exchange using model-free estimates of daily exchange rate volatility based on intraday data. We formulate a flexible yet … parsimonious parametric model in which the daily realized volatility of a given exchange rate depends both on its own lags as well …

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Exchange rate misalingment estimates : sources of differences

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - 2011

We study the differences of currency misalignment estimates obtained from alternative datasets derived from two International Comparison Program (ICP) surveys. A decomposition exercise reveals that the year 2005 misalignment estimates are substantially affected by the ICP price revision....

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Dissecting the PPP puzzle : the unconventional roles of nominal exchange rate and price adjustment

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S.; Bergman, Michael U. - 2003

The conventional view, as expounded by sticky-price models, is that price adjustment determines the PPP reversion rate. This study examines the mechanism by which PPP deviations are corrected. Nominal exchange rate adjustment, not price adjustment, is shown to be the key engine governing the...

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China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan : a quantitative assessment of real and financial integration

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Fujii, Eiji - 2003

The status of real and financial integration of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan is investigated using monthly data on one-month interbank rates, exchange rates, and prices. Specifically, the degree of integration is assessed based on the empirical validity of real interest parity, uncovered...

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Exchange rate misalignment : the case of the Chinese Renminbi

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2012

Assessing exchange rate misalignment is not an easy task. With reference to the debate on the value of China's currency, the renminbi (RMB), this article highlights a few challenges in properly assessing the extent of currency misalignment. The results derived from the fundamental equilibrium...

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A re-examination of the link between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials

Hoffmann, Mathias; MacDonald, Ronald - 2003

The real exchange rate - real interest rate (RERI) relationship is central to most open economy macroeconomic models. However, empirical support for the relationship, especially when cointegrationbased methods are used, is rather weak. In this paper we reinvestigate the RERI relationship using...

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International financial market integration, asset compositions, and the falling exchange rate pass-through

Enders, Almira; Enders, Zeno; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2017

This paper provides an explanation for the observed decline of the exchange rate pass-through into import prices by modeling the effects of financial market integration on the optimal choice of the pricing currency in the context of rigid nominal goods prices. Contrary to previous literature, we...

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