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the estimation results, two currencies, the Swiss franc and (to a lesser extent) the US dollar qualify as safe haven …
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The British foreign exchange reserves decreased by 40 percent during the period August 1996 - December 1999 although the Pound Sterling is considered a floating exchange rate since it left the EMS in 1992. Since changes in the level of foreign exchange reserves are usually taken as indicators...
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We revisit medium- to long-run exchange rate determination, focusing on the role of international investment positions. To do so, we make use of a new econometric framework accounting for conditional long-run homogeneity in heterogeneous dynamic panel data models. In particular, in our model the...
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There has been mixed evidence regarding the existence of rational bubbles in the foreign exchange markets. Standard unit root and cointegration tests are criticized for their low power to detect rational bubbles that periodically collapse. This paper introduces recently developed sequential unit...
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an accurate calibration of forecast confidence intervals, and is better suited at long horizons and in high-volatility …
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We propose a semi-parametric approach to heterogeneous dynamic panel data modelling. The method generalizes existing approaches to model cross-section homogeneity within such panels. It allows for partial influence of other cross-section units on estimated coefficients, differentiating between...
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estimation method used to derive them. Essentially, these methods differ in their treatment of the time-series (time) and the … cross-section (space) variation in the panel. The study shows that conventional panel estimation methods (pooled OLS, fixed … literature to show that the distortion is generally very large. This suggests the use of the CRE model for the panel estimation …
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Using confidential daily data, we analyse how the intervention episode of the Bank of Israel (BOI) from 2013 to 2019 has affected the foreign value of the Israeli new shekel (ILS) and the expectations about its future value. We find that interventions amounting to US dollar (USD) 1 billion are...
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