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Carry Funding and Safe Haven Currencies : A Threshold Regression Approach
Hossfeld, Oliver - 2015
the estimation results, two currencies, the Swiss franc and (to a lesser extent) the US dollar qualify as safe haven … currencies, and the euro serves as a hedge currency. Results for the yen support its role as a carry funding vehicle, but not … analysis of bilateral euro-based exchange rates, given the euro's prominent role during the euro area sovereign debt crisis …
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Time-Varying Exchange Rate Basket in China from 2005 to 2009
Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2013
We use the Kalman filter to estimate the structure of the secret currency basket of the renminbi based on daily data between 2005 and 2009. The currency weights of selected currencies are modeled as stochastic processes (random walks). The official announcement of the new exchange rate regime in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094429
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Pegxit Pressure : Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
Mitchener, Kris James - 2017
We develop a simple model that highlights the costs and benefits of fixed exchange rates as they relate to trade, and show that negative export-price shocks reduce fiscal revenue and increase the likelihood of an expected currency devaluation. Using a new high-frequency data set on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965714
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Long Memory and Fractional Integration in High Frequency Data on the US Dollar/British Pound Spot Exchange Rate
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
This paper analyses the long-memory properties of a high-frequency financial time series dataset. It focuses on temporal aggregation and other features of the data, and how they might affect the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082343
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Testing
Bergbauer, Annika - 2018
School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910939
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Testing Means-Tested Aid
Murphy, Richard - 2016
Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of education aid examine its impact on college enrollment. In this paper, we provide evidence on the causal impact of means-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979583
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A Multiple Testing Approach to the Regularisation of Large Sample Correlation Markets
Bailey, Natalia - 2014
This paper proposes a novel regularisation method for the estimation of large covariance matrices, which makes use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051612
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Fractional Integration and Cointegration in US Financial Time Series Data
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011
This paper examines several US monthly financial time series data using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The univariate analysis based on fractional integration aims to determine whether the series are I(1) (in which case markets might be efficient) or alternatively I(d) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126003
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Price Formation on the EuroMTS Platform
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
This paper examines the process of price discovery in the MTS system, which builds on the parallel quoting of euro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095113
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International Portfolio Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility for Emerging Markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility, using monthly bilateral data for the US vis-a-vis eight Asian developing and emerging countries (India, Indonesia, South Korea, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, and Taiwan) over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009868