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Reverse Causality in Global Current Accounts

Schnabl, Gunther - 2010

The paper discusses global imbalances under the aspect of an asymmetric world monetary system. It identifies the US and Germany as center countries with rising/high current account deficits (US) and surpluses (Germany). These are matched by current account surpluses of countries stabilizing...

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The International Dimension of an Incomplete Emu

Ioannou, Demosthenes - 2020

This paper quantifies the economic influence that shocks to EMU cohesion, which in turn reflect the incomplete nature of the monetary union, have on the rest of the world. Disentangling euro area stress shocks and global risk aversion shocks based on a combination of sign, magnitude and...

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A Quantitative Perspective on Optimal Monetary Policy Cooperation between the US and the Euro Area

Adjemian, Stephane - 2008

The objective of this paper is to examine the main features of optimal monetary policy cooperation within a micro-founded macroeconometric frame-work. First, using Bayesian techniques, we estimate a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for the United States (US) and...

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China's dominance hypothesis and the emergence of a tri-polar global currency system

Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2011

euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi … global financial crisis. These results are consistent with China’s dominance hypothesis and with the view that the … international monetary system is already tri-polar. However, we also find that China’s currency movements are to some extent …

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China's Dominance Hypothesis and the Emergence of a Tri-Polar Global Currency System

Fratzscher, Marcel - 2011

euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China's “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi … global financial crisis. These results are consistent with China's dominance hypothesis and with the view that the … international monetary system is already tri-polar. However, we also find that China's currency movements are to some extent …

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A Narrative Database of Labour Market Reforms in Euro Area Economies

Aumond, Romain; Di Tommaso, Valerio; Rünstler, Gerhard - 2022

We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates...

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Exchange Rate Anchoring - Is there Still a De Facto US Dollar Standard?

Bracke, Thierry - 2011

The paper provides a measure of exchange rate anchoring behavior 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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When Did the Dollar Overtake Sterling as the Leading International Currency? Evidence From the Bond Markets

Chitu, Livia - 2012

This paper offers new evidence on the emergence of the dollar as the leading international currency, focusing on its role as currency of denomination in global bond markets. We show that the dollar overtook sterling much earlier than commonly supposed, as early as in 1929. Financial market...

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Growth in Small Open Economies at the EMU Periphery

Schnabl, Gunther - 2008

Since the introduction of the euro in January 1999, exchange rate stability at the periphery of the euro area is growing. The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate stability on growth for a sample of 41 mostly small open economies at the EMU periphery. It identifies international trade,...

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Proximity and Linkages among Coalition Participants : A New Voting Power Measure Applied to the International Monetary Fund

Reynaud, Julien P. M. - 2007

Voting power methodology offers insights to understand coalition building in collective decision making. Using cooperative game theory, Banzhaf (1965) developed an index to capture the numerical importance of voters in coalition building. This voting power index is still widely used today in...

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