Intro -- CESifo Seminar Series -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- I China's Exchange Rate Policy -- 2 United States, China, and the Rebalancing Debate: Misalignment, Elasticities, and the Saving-Investment Balance -- 3 The Role of the Chinese Dollar...

We examine the effects of active international reserve management (IRM) conducted by central banks of emerging market economies (EMEs) on firm investment in the presence of global financial shocks. Using firm level data from 46 EMEs from 2000 to 2018, we document four findings. First, active IRM...

We observe that daily highs and lows of stock prices do not diverge over time and, hence, adopt the cointegration concept and the related vector error correction model (VECM) to model the daily high, the daily low, and the associated daily range data. The in-sample results attest the importance...

We examine the empirical determinants of the demand for international reserves and compare the experiences of some Asian and Latin American economies. Our empirical results indicate that different vintages of the model of international reserves give different inferences about the appropriate...

The article examines the Hong Kong export performance. A standard export demand formulation is used as the benchmark. Then, we investigate the effects of real exchange rate volatility, quot;thirdquot; country competition, domestic wages, and costs of imports from China on export volume. The...