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Is the Chinese currency substantially misaligned to warrant further appreciation?
Qin, Duo; He, Xinhua - 2010
estimation is based on a commonly used economic approach, but with a wider and more up-to-date coverage of data and a more … misalignment exists in the trilateral rates between the RMB, US$ and euro. The finding refutes the claim that RMB appreciation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280745
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Purchasing power parity and the European single currency: some new evidence
Christidou, Maria; Panagiotidis, Theodore - 2010
EU countries, vis a vis the US dollar, before and after the advent of the euro. Standard as well as nonlinear unit root …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273678
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Hegemonic currencies during the crisis: The dollar versus the euro in a cartalist perspective
Fields, David; Vernengo, Matías - 2011
default. It is argued that the current crisis in Europe illustrates why the euro is not a real contender for hegemony in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281749
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In- and out-of-sample specification analysis of spot rate models: Further evidence for the period 1982-2008
Cai, Lili; Swanson, Norman R. - 2011
We review and construct consistent in-sample specification and out-of-sample model selection tests on conditional distributions and predictive densities associated with continuous multifactor (possibly with jumps) and (non)linear discrete models of the short term interest rate. The results of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282832
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Will the euro eventually surpass the dollar as leading international reserve currency?
Chinn, Menzie; Frankel, Jeffrey - 2006
: 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285296
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Equity capital, bankruptcy risk and the liquidity trap
Levintal, Oren - 2011
This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335985
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The effects of the saving and banking glut on the U.S. economy
Justiniano, Alejandro; Primiceri, Giorgio E.; … - 2013
We use a quantitative equilibrium model with houses, collateralized debt and foreign borrowing to study the impact of global imbalances on the U.S. economy in the 2000s. Our results suggest that the dynamics of foreign capital flows account for between one fourth and one third of the increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352184
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Measuring the stability of a dynamic system: The case of the stock market turmoil 2007-2008
Bask, Mikael; Widerberg, Anna - 2010
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the change in actual and potential market risks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during the two-year period 2007-2008 can be analyzed with the help of-analysis. In the empirical analysis, the average of the Lyapunov exponents for the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321428
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Estimating the border effect: Some new evidence
Gopinath, Gita; Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280948
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Fluctuations in the Swiss Franc: What has Changed Since the Euro's Introduction?
Fischer, Andreas M. - 2002
, fluctuations in the Swiss franc against the euro have been surprisingly moderate. The Swiss franc has thus tracked the euro … monetary policy with the new landscape defined by EMU. Four hypotheses of euro tracking are considered. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430039