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This paper examines the role of monetary policy (MP) as a driver of connectedness patterns in speculative activities in financial markets. Examining measures of speculation in four major markets including gold, equities, Treasury bonds and crude oil, we show that speculative activities can spill...
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This paper studies to what extent the diversity of exchange rate regimes within Mercosur exerts an influence on the feasibility of a monetary union in this area. A semi-structural VAR model is built for each country, including a set of international and domestic variables. Based on impulse...
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We solve a canonical, estimated, medium-sized, open-economy New Keynesian model, cast it into a small-scale population vector autoregression, and assess whether best-practice structural identifications detect textbook "overshooting" after a monetary policy hike-i.e., an instant real appreciation...
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This paper proposes a generalized multivariate framework to measure the significance of common permanent and transitory components in international business cycle fluctuations. I employ a multivariate unobserved components model with Markov regime switching to investigate the nonlinear dynamics...
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This paper examines the policy challenges a country faces when it wants to both reduce inflation and maintain a sustainable external position. Mundell's (1962) policy assignment framework suggests that these two goals may be mutually incompatible unless monetary and fiscal policies are properly...
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This article documents the Great Trade Collapse of 2008-09, as well as the dramatic recovery in trade of 2009-10. The authors consider how three distinct policy actions - fiscal stimulus, funding for trade finance, and a commitment to refrain from increasing trade barriers - might have affected...
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We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...
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The antecedent studies have designed a novel financial mechanism in which, upon trading intellectual capital, the economy creates or receives money to ensure unimpeded capital access and spur its generation and exploitation. This piece summarises some mathematical aspects, allowing us to apply...
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Precedent studies have designed a novel financial mechanism ensuring others access and exploit intellectual capital while protecting the right holder’s profit. By the mechanism, the national central bank would fund the generation and adoption of intellectual capital, e.g., a license fee, and...
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As some scholars have requested, this essay briefly reviews the precedent studies over “Intellectual Capital Money (IKM)” with a unified perspective in the form of a statement of purpose. The first component designs the IKM funding under the balance sheet approach. The second component shows...
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