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Boom-bust cycles in middle income countries : facts and explanation
Tornell, Aaron; Westermann, Frank - 2002
In this paper we characterize empirically the comovements of macro variables typically observed in middle income countries, as well as the boom-bust cycle that has been observed during the last two decades. We find that many countries that have liberalized their financial markets, have witnessed...
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Chinese monetary policy and the dollar peg
Reade, J. James; Volz, Ulrich - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent Chinese monetary policy is constrained by the dollar peg. To this end, we use a cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates are driven by the Fed's policy. In a second step, we estimate a monetary model for China, in which we include...
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Different no more : country spreads in advanced and emerging economies
Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot J.; Pfeifer, Johannes; … - 2020
Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...
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Asymmetry in forward exchange rate bias : a puzzling result
Wu, Yangru - In: Economics letters 50 (1996) 3, pp. 407-411
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The Euro/Dollar exchange rate : chaotic or non-chaotic?
Federici, Daniela; Gandolfo, Giancarlo - 2011
econometrically estimated in continuous time with Euro/Dollar data and examined for the possible presence of chaotic motion. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011774
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Statements of ECB officials and their effect on the level and volatility of the Euro-Dollar exchange rate
Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2003
This paper studies the reaction of the mean and volatility of the euro-dollar exchange rate to statements of ECB … officials during the first years of EMU. We focus on statements on monetary policy and the (potential) strength of the euro. We …. In some cases there are effects of statements on the level of the euro-dollar rate. Efforts to talk up the euro have not …
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Testing efficient market hypothesis for the dollar-sterling gold standard exchange rate 1890 - 1906 : MLE with double truncation
Goldman, Elena - In: Economics letters 69 (2000) 3, pp. 253-259
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Financial crises and the dynamic linkages between stock and bond returns
Eraslan, Sercan; Ali, Faek Menla - 2017
This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns, within a wide range of advanced economies, over the different phases of the recent financial crisis. The adopted empirical framework is a bivariate volatility model, where...
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Equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the great recession and the European sovereign debt crisis
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Liu, Estelle X.; Schmittmann, … - 2013
This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
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On the effectiveness of foreign exchange reserves during the 2021-22 U.S. monetary tightening cycle
Ahmed, Rashad; Aizenman, Joshua; Saadaoui, Jamel; … - In: Economics letters 233 (2023), pp. 1-5
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