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bank should buy (or sell) in foreign exchange interventions. The rebalancings of GBI-EM Global Diversified create demand …
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correction models for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Using the weights of the Harmonized Index of Consumer …We study the pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices for the euro area by estimating vector error … Prices (HICP) we compute a weighted average of the country results for the euro area. We find that in response to a ten …
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intermediaries have a limited capacity to arbitrage between both bond markets. As a result, the central bank can manipulate the …
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Countries which share a common currency potentially have strong incentives to share macroeconomic risks through a system of transfers to compensate for the loss of national monetary policy. However, the option to leave the currency union and regain national monetary policy can place severe...
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Milton Friedman's longstanding advocacy in favor of floating exchange rates has contributed to a mistaken belief that he opposed currency board regimes or outright dollarization. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over a period of almost five decades Friedman consistently made it clear...
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One of the main reasons to dollarize an emerging market economy is to eliminate high, persistent, and volatile inflation. To be effective, dollarization must generate sufficient credibility, which in turn depends critically on whether its expected probability of reversal is low. Argentina once...
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Results of empirical research have revealed a characteristic hump-shaped effect of monetary policy shocks on output: the effect builds to a peak after several months and then gradually dies out. We analyze, in the context of a "new open economy macroeconomics" model, factors that imply a hump-...
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A number of empirical studies have reported the result that exchange rates show a delayed overshooting in response to monetary policy shocks. This result is puzzling. Economic theory suggests that the overshooting should occur immediately after the shock, not with a delay. This paper uses a ?new...
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of a larger effort in the Bank to understand the functioning of alternative currency arrangements …
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We incorporate terms-of-trade externality into a small open economy featuring an incomplete market, sterilized intervention, and capital controls as in Chang et al. (2015), and we highlight the central banks reaction to exchange rate movement. Our calibrated model using data from China shows...
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