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Inflation targets versus international monetary integration : a Canadian perspective

Laidler, David E. W. - 2002

The debate about Canadian-U.S. monetary integration is surveyed. The choice is among overall monetary orders,rather than exchange rate regimes and questions of policy credibility and political accountability are crucial. Canada's recent economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments...

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Cross-dynamics of volatility term structures implied by foreign exchange options

Krylova, Elizaveta; Nikkinen, Jussi; Vähämaa, Sami - 2005

in the empirical analysis consist of daily observations of implied volatilities for OTC options on the euro, Japanese yen …, the results indicate that the euro is the dominant currency, as the implied volatility term structure of the euro is found … to affect all the other volatility term structures, while the term structure of the euro appears to be virtually …

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The US and Irish Credit Crises : Their Distinctive Differences and Common Features

Connor, Gregory - 2010

Although the US credit crisis precipitated it, the Irish credit crisis is an identifiably separate one, which might have occurred in the absence of the U.S. crash. The distinctive differences between them are notable. Almost all the apparent causal factors of the U.S. crisis are missing in the...

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"Where’s my swap line?" : a money view of international lender of last resort

Mehrling, Perry - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 2, pp. 559-574

The past two decades have seen the construction of a tiered system of international liquidity provision, the first tier including those whose credit is sufficient for a swap line with the Fed, the second tier including those who can offer acceptable collateral to the Fed, and the third tier...

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Macroeconomic imbalances in the United States and their impact on the international financial system

Perelstein, Julia S. (contributor) - 2009

The argument put forward in this paper is twofold: first, that the financial crisis of 2007/08 was made global by the U.S. current account deficit. This is because the outflow of dollars from the United States was invested in U.S. capital markets, causing inflation in asset markets and leading...

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Germany versus the United States : monetary Dominance in the Eurozone

Quah, Chee Heong - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-16

This study inspects if there is greater convergence with Germany amongst the Eurozone founding members and if their relations with the hegemonic economy have been more symmetrical after "euroization". The dimensions explored are those inspired by the optimum currency areas (OCA) framework. To...

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The economic diplomacy of sovereign debt crises : Latin America and the euro-zone compared

Bayne, Nicholas - In: International journal of diplomacy and economy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 4-18

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International Monetary Policy Coordination

Carlberg, Michael - 2005

This paper studies the international coordination of monetary policies in the world economy. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on monetary competition between Europe and America. Similarly, as...

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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004

A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...

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U.S. Macro Policies and Global Economic Challenges

Aizenman, Joshua; Itō, Hiro - 2021

This paper overviews different exit strategies for the U.S. from the debt-overhang, and analyses their implications for emerging markets and global stability. These strategies are discussed in the context of the debates about secular-stagnation versus debt-overhang, the fiscal theory of the...

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