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: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve holdings of ….9). The advent of the euro interrupts the continuity of the historical data set. So we estimate parameters on pre-1999 data … dollar and euro over the period 1999-2004. Whether the euro might in the future rival or surpass the dollar as the world …
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currencies are less successfully explained. It may be that the results from currency-by-currency estimation are impaired by …
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This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates did not change substantially in Germany, increased and...
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Do central banks rebalance their currency shares? The answer matters because the dollar's predominant role in large official reserve holdings means that widespread rebalancing requires central banks to buy (sell) a depreciating (appreciating) dollar, stabilising its value against other major...
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Three current account imbalances - one very large deficit (the United States) and two surpluses (Japan and the Euro … down. For the Euro area, less than half a percentage point of its current account surplus is found to require an adjustment …
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This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...
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