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The U.S. dollar plays a key role in international trade invoicing along two complementary dimensions. First, most U.S. exports and imports are invoiced in dollars; second, trade flows that do not involve the United States are often invoiced in dollars, a fact that has received relatively little...
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The post-crisis period has seen a considerable shift in the composition and drivers of international bank lending and international bond issuance, the two main components of global liquidity. The sensitivity of both types of flows to U.S. monetary policy rose substantially in the immediate...
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The econometrics literature contains a variety of two-sided tests for unknown breakpoints in time-series models with one or more parameters. This paper derives an analogous one-sided test that takes into account the direction of the change for a single parameter. In particular, we propose a sup...
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To what extent do national borders and national currencies impose costs that segment markets across countries? To answer this question the authors use a dataset with product-level retail prices and wholesale costs for a large grocery chain with stores in the United States and Canada. They...
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Following a scarcity of dollar funding available internationally to banks and financial institutions, in December 2007 the Federal Reserve began to establish or expand Temporary Reciprocal Currency Arrangements with fourteen foreign central banks. These central banks had the capacity to use...
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Theories of systemic risk suggest that financial intermediaries' balance-sheet constraints amplify fundamental shocks. We provide supportive evidence for such theories by decomposing the U.S. dollar risk premium into components associated with macroeconomic fundamentals and a component...
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The naming of eleven banks as “too big to fail (TBTF)” in 1984 led bond raters to raise their ratings on new bond issues of TBTF banks about a notch relative to those of other, unnamed banks. The relationship between bond spreads and ratings for the TBTF banks tended to flatten after that...
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countries and product categories, in the euro area over the last fifteen years. Our results show that the transmission of … introduction of the euro caused a structural change in exchange rate pass-through. Although some estimated point elasticities have … manufacturing industries. And since the euro was introduced, industries producing differentiated goods have been more likely to …
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Restaurant prices in the Euro area saw an unprecedented increase after the introduction of the Euro. We use an … costs. The extension we use involves the state-dependent decision of firms about when to adopt the Euro. Two main mechanisms … drive the result. First, our model concentrates otherwise staggered price increases around the introduction of the Euro …
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Countries aspiring to join the euro area—the so-called accession countries—are increasingly binding their economic … activity, external and internal, to the euro-area countries. This phenomenon is observed in the currency invoicing of … degree of euro-denominated invoicing of exports. I find that the exporters in some accession countries might be pricing too …
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