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An Empirical and Theoretical Study on the Wider Use of Local Currencies in the Asia-Pacific Region after the Asian Financial and Currency Crisis : An analysis focused on Thailand
Inoue, Ichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The Asian financial and currency crisis triggered a significant change to the currency composition of private liabilities in Thailand. Namely, the Thai private sector switched the denominations from the US dollar to the yen and at a larger percentage to the home currency (the Thai baht). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363834
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Oil prices, exchange rates and asset prices
Fratzscher, Marcel; Schneider, Daniel; Van Robays, Ine - European Central Bank - 2014
This paper takes a financial market perspective in examining the relationship between oil prices, the US dollar and asset prices, and it exploits the heteroskedasticity for the identification of causality in a multifactor model. It finds a bidirectional causality between the US dollar and oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067221
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Has the Euro affected the choice of invoicing currency?
Ligthart, Jenny E.; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - European Central Bank - 2012
We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on the pattern of currency … invoicing after the introduction of the euro, whereas the home currency share of non-eurozone countries fell slightly. In … addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The substantial rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686764
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The mutating euro area crisis: is the balance between "sceptics" and "advocates" shifting?
Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - European Central Bank - 2013
The destructive potential of the sovereign debt crisis of the euro area has been slowly abating since last summer, but … euro area, and the other being an erosion of trust in the viability of the euro area itself. Such concerns have led to talk … the crisis or the future of the euro area. While the crisis is a traumatic wake-up call, it is also a catalyst for change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688313
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One currency, one price? Euro changeover-related inflation in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Rõõm, Tairi - European Central Bank - 2014
This paper studies euro changeover-related inflation using disaggregated price level data. The difference …-in-differences approach is used and the control group for the treatment country, Estonia, is built from 12 euro area countries. The Nielsen … overall inflationary effect of euro adoption was modest, the effects were significantly different across various market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067230
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The mutating euro area crisis: is the balance between "sceptics" and "advocates" shifting?
Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - European Central Bank - 2013
The destructive potential of the sovereign debt crisis of the euro area has been slowly abating since last summer, but … euro area, and the other being an erosion of trust in the viability of the euro area itself. Such concerns have led to talk … the crisis or the future of the euro area. While the crisis is a traumatic wake-up call, it is also a catalyst for change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693504
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Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Developing Asia is the driver of today’s emissions intensive global economy. As the principle source of future emissions, the region is critical to the task of global climate change mitigation. Reflecting this global reality and a range of related domestic issues, the governments of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277994
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How Should We Bank With Foreigners?—An Empirical Assessment of Lending Behavior of International Banks to Six East Asian Economies
Pontines, Victor; Siregar, Reza Y. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The possible crucial role of international bank lending in transmitting adverse economic disturbance from developed economies to emerging economies in the 2008–2009 global financial crisis has placed capital flows into sharper scrutiny in academic and policy discussions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278020
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Central Banking for Financial Stability in Asia
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
A key lesson of the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk and the need for a “macroprudential†approach to surveillance and regulation that can identify system-wide risks and take appropriate actions to maintain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278022
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New Measures of the Trilemma Hypothesis : Implications for Asia
Ito, Hiro; Kawai, Masahiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
We develop a new set of indexes of exchange rate stability, monetary policy independence, and financial market openness as the metrics for the trilemma hypothesis. In our exploration, we take a different and more nuanced approach than the previous indexes developed by Aizenman, Chinn, and Ito...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278057