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to a refined estimation technique, it becomes apparent that an increase rather than a decline in volatility has taken …This paper analyzes the effects of changes in the Czech exchange rate mechanism on the volatility of the Czech spot … exchange rate. While related studies draw the conclusion that exchange rate volatility decreased after the widening of the …
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conditional volatility and density distribution close to the target zone limit, we present clear and direct evidence that the …
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To counter the sharp appreciation of the Swiss franc that set in in the wake of the European sovereign debt crisis, on September 6, 2011, the Swiss National Bank announced to enforce a minimum EUR/CHF exchange rate of CHF 1.20. We find that the simple, though elegant model for the exchange rate...
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Starting from the stylized fact that the Swiss franc is a safe haven currency, this paper focuses on the determinants of the Swiss franc during the lower bound regime from September 2011 to January 2015. We describe the Swiss franc as a function of global market risk fundamentals and find that...
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The choice of an exchange rate arrangement affects the volatility of the exchange rate: higher flexibility goes ahead … with increasing volatility and vice versa (Flood and Rose 1995, 1999). We investigate the exchange rate volatility of six …-model (Bollerslev 1986) and the Markov Switching Model (Hamilton 1989). We discover switches between high and low volatility regimes …
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This paper attempts to identify implicit exchange-rate regimes for currencies of candidate countries vis-à-vis the euro. To that end, we apply three sequential procedures that consider the dynamics of exchange rates to data covering the period from 1999:01 to 2012:12. Our results would suggest...
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From September 2011 to January 2015, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) implemented a minimum exchange rate regime (i.e. a one-sided target zone) vis-a-vis the euro to fight deflationary pressures in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. During this period of unconventional monetary policy,...
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