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The Dollar versus the Euro as International Reserve Currencies
Chinn, Menzie David; Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Itō, Hiro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
currencies are less successfully explained. It may be that the results from currency-by-currency estimation are impaired by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528426
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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States
Hoffmann, Florian - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457972
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Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes
Ilzetzki, Ethan; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Rogoff, Kenneth S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper employs an updated algorithm and database for classifying exchange rate and anchor currency choice, to explore the evolution of the global exchange rate system, including parallel rates, capital controls and reserves. In line with a large recent literature, we find that the dollar has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660025
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Do Central Banks Rebalance Their Currency Shares?
Chinn, Menzie David; Itō, Hiro; McCauley, Robert N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616637
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Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different? An International Historical Comparison
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2008
Is the 2007-2008 U.S. sub-prime mortgage financial crisis truly a new and different phenomena? Our examination of the longer historical record finds stunning qualitative and quantitative parallels to 18 earlier post-war banking crises in industrialized countries. Specifically, the run-up in U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464886
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects
Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482593
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Why Is the Euro Punching Below Its Weight?
Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2020
On the twentieth anniversary of its inception, the euro has yet to expand its role as an international currency. We …, the euro comprises a far smaller share than that of the US dollar. Furthermore, that share has been roughly constant since … 1999. By some measures, the euro plays no larger a role than the Deutschemark and French franc that it replaced. We explore …
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