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economy. The measure of a currency's global role is based on the size and stage of development of the underlying economy, as … currency. The paper applies the concept to 22 currencies of advanced and emerging economies. The results confirm the well … measure in detail, arguing that in view of financial globalisation, an indicator based on currency shares in the international …
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We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on the pattern of currency … invoicing. Our approach uses a compositional multinomial logit model, in which currency choice is explained by both currency … countries for the 1996-2006 period. We find that eurozone countries have substantially increased their share of home currency …
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stability of invoicing currency patterns. But the evidence also points to several novel stylised facts. First, both the US … the euro area has declined. Second, the euro is used as a vehicle currency in parts of Africa, and some European countries … have seen significant shifts toward euro invoicing. And third, as suggested by the dominant currency paradigm, countries …
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There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...
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This paper provides insights into the determinants of currency choice in cross-border bank lending, such as bilateral … distance, financial and trade linkages to issuer countries of major currencies, and invoicing currency patterns. Cross …
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This paper addresses the question of whether sterilized central bank intervention systematically affects exchange rates. Furthermore, the paper analyzes whether a central bank can conduct its intervention operations in a specific manner, in order to increase the likelihood of achieving its...
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This paper focuses on changes in the currency options market’s assessment of likely future exchange rate developments … with systematic changes in all moments of the estimated RNDs on the JPY/USD currency pair, and in several of the moments of … the estimated RNDs on the JPY/EUR and USD/EUR currency pairs. In particular, the operations where Japanese yen is sold …
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participating currencies are in effect identical from inception of a currency union, the convergence process to such an identical …
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While up to the late 1990s Japanese foreign exchange intervention was fully sterilized, Japanese monetary authorities left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous research on foreign exchange intervention, unsterilized...
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The paper provides a measure of exchange rate anchoring behaviour across 149 emerging market and developing economies for the 1980-2010 period. An extension of the Frankel and Wei (2008) methodology is used to determine whether exchange rates are pegged or floating, and in the case of pegs, to...
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