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's traditional role as a safe-haven and store of value. Other commodity prices, where such news is significant, exhibit pro …
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This paper finds that reforms introduced by the IMF to promote transparency have created more informed markets and reduced borrowing costs for those emerging market countries that volunteered for them. Using a quarterly panel estimation with fixed country effects, we find that sovereign spreads...
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The treatment of license payments in the national accounts has become increasingly important in recent years; with mobile phone licenses being auctioned for substantial values in several countries. Because the text of the System of National Accounts 1993 does not provide specific guidance on...
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This study characterizes volatility dynamics in external emerging bond markets and examines how prices and volatility … respond to news about macroeconomic fundamentals. As in mature bond markets, macroeconomic surprises in external emerging bond … markets are found to a¤ect both conditional returns and volatility, with the e¤ects on volatility being more pronounced and …
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Using daily data for the January 1997 to June 2002 period, we analyze the impact of a broad set of macroeconomic news … on stock prices in the United States and Germany. With GARCH specifications we test five hypotheses and find that news on … depend on the state of the economy. In a boom period, bad economic news may be good news for stock prices. For German stock …
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We study equity price volatility in general equilibrium with news shocks about future productivity and monetary policy … asset price volatility. We show that introducing news shocks in a canonical dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model may …. As West (1988) shows, in a partial equilibrium present discounted value model, news about the future cash flow reduces …
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This paper examines how exchange rate volatility and Korean banks’ foreign exchange liquidity mismatches interacted …
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This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...
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We examine how Korea’s capital flows and trade have been affected by the quantitative easing (QE) of the United States and the quantitative and qualitative easing (QQME) of Japan. Korea is an intriguing case due to its borderline position between advanced and emerging market country...
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Peru states that its forex interventions aim only at containing excessive exchange rate volatility, the results of this … also show that forex sales, but not forex purchases, react to volatility, indicating asymmetry in the central bankâ …
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