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left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous …
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moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction at horizons of up to three months after G7 meetings, but not at …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124257
moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction at horizons of up to three months after G7 meetings, but not at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604998
left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604696
This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tripolar and centred around the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China's “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting...
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We analytically derive optimal central bank portfolios in a minimum variance framework with two assets and quot;transaction demandsquot; caused by sudden stops in capital inflows. In this model, the transaction demands become less important relative to traditional portfolio objectives as debt to...
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This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tripolar and centred around the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605438
A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159289
How does global risk impact the world economy? In taking up this question, we focus on the dollar’s role in the international adjustment mechanism. First, we rely on high-frequency surprises in the price of gold to identify the effects of global risk shocks in a Bayesian Proxy VAR model. They...
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