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Do China and Oil Exporters Influence Major Currency Configurations?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2015
economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749953
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Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2008
economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605019
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What explains global exchange rate movements during the financial crisis?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009
A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605106
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What Explains Global Exchange Rate Movements during the Financial Crisis
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009
A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159289
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China's dominance hypothesis and the emergence of a tri-polar global currency system
Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2011
euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605438
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The Scapegoat Theory of Exchange Rates : The First Tests
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2012
This paper provides an empirical test of the scapegoat theory of exchange rates (Bacchetta and van Wincoop 2004, 2011), as an attempt to evaluate its potential for explaining the poor empirical performance of traditional exchange rate models. This theory suggests that market participants may at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111946
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Oil prices, exchange rates and asset prices
Fratzscher, Marcel; Schneider, Daniel; Van Robays, Ine - 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/10011605734
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On the International Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2013
The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy measures. First, we find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1) were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and raising equity markets, especially in the US relative to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081463
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Purdah: on the rationale for central bank silence around policy meetings
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2008
Despite substantial differences in monetary policy and communication strategies, many central banks share the practice of purdah, a self-imposed guideline of abstaining from communication around policy meetings or other important events. This practice is remarkable, as it seems to contradict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604914
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US shocks and global exchange rate configurations
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2007
The paper analyses the heterogeneity in the link between macroeconomic fundamentals and exchange rates. For a set of important US-specific economic shocks, it shows that such shocks have exerted a remarkably heterogeneous effect on global exchange rate configurations over the past 25 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604881