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We present evidence that the funding liquidity aggregates of U.S. financial intermediaries forecast exchange rate … estimate prices of risk using a cross-sectional asset pricing approach and show that U.S. dollar funding liquidity forecasts … liquidity channel in an intertemporal equilibrium pricing model where the “risk appetite” of dollar-funded intermediaries …
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The adoption of quantitative easing (QE) policy by the United States (US) Federal Reserve Bank since early 2009 has aroused widespread concerns in Asia and elsewhere regarding its possible impact in terms of the weakening of the US dollar and stimulating capital outflows to emerging economies...
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We provide a comprehensive study of the liquidity of spot foreign exchange (FX) rates over more than two decades and a … large cross-section of currencies. First, we show that FX liquidity can be accurately measured with daily and readily …-available data. Second, we demonstrate that FX liquidity declines with funding constraints and global risk, supporting theoretical …
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Many countries manipulate the value of their currency or use some form of capital control, yet the data usually used to detect these manipulations are low frequency, expensive, lagged, and potentially mis-measured. I demonstrate that the price data of the internationally traded cryptocurrency...
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financial stability. However, there is a lack of analysis of their effect on foreign exchange (FX) market liquidity. In … capital controls on alternative indicators of FX liquidity. In this paper, we introduce a theoretical model showing that, if … liquidity). On the other hand, if capital controls are modelled as transaction costs, they can reduce the effective spread (a …
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Interest rate differentials between China and the rest of the world provide an attractive target for currency carry trade strategies, but remains problematic due to existing capital controls. We focus on copper holdings as an asset used to facilitate the carry trade. Using a unique dataset of...
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This paper examines the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on different components of portfolio flows, namely equity and bond flows, as well as the dynamic linkages between exchange rate volatility and the variability of these two types of flows. Specifically, a bivariate GARCH-BEKK-in-mean...
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Many currencies, especially those of countries with negative net foreign assets, tend to depreciate during times of financial turbulence. Using a panel of 26 currencies over the period 1/1997-6/2016, I show that the composition of net foreign assets matter for the exchange rate sensitivity to...
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This paper examines the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on different components of portfolio flows, namely equity and bond flows, as well as the dynamic linkages between exchange rate volatility and the variability of these two types of flows. Specifically, a bivariate GARCH-BEKK-in-mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063941
Foreign exchange rates and capital movements are expected to be closely related to each other as international capital markets become more and more integrated. To account for this fact we construct an index of real effective exchange rates as a weighted average of cross-country asset price...
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