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The Asia financial crises and exchange rates: Had there been volatility shifts for Asian currencies?
Oga, Takashi; Polasek, Wolfgang - 2010
We analyse the volatility structure of Asian currencies against the U.S. dollar (USD) for the Thai Baht THB, the Philippine Peso PHP, the Indonesian Rupiah IDR and the South Korean Won KRW. Our goal is to check if the characteristics of the volatility dynamics have changed in a K-state switching...
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Zur Qualität professioneller Wechselkursprognosen
Schmidt, Robert - 2003
Die Berücksichtigung der zukünftigen Entwicklung des Wechselkurses ist sowohl für internationale Unternehmen als auch für international tätige Investoren unabdingbar. Allerdings ist die Erstellung von Wechsel- kursprognosen schwierig, da bis zum heutigen Zeitpunkt kein allgemein anerkanntes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305747
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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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Choice of currency in bond issuance and the international role of currencies
Siegfried, Nikolaus; Simeonova, Emilia; Vespro, Cristina - 2007
This paper investigates bond issuance of non-financial corporations in advanced economies during the period 1999-2003, attempting to understand motives for issuing in foreign currency, and determinants for the choice of currency. We consider the following influences on the currency choice when...
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How successful is the G7 in managing exchange rates?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2008
moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction at horizons of up to three months after G7 meetings, but not at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604998
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The Success of Currency Reforms to End Great Inflations: An Empirical Analysis of 34 High Inflations
Bernholz, Peter; Kugler, Peter - 2007
The estimation of an ordered probit model for currency reforms trying to end 31 hyperinflations and three big …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390618
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Chinese monetary policy and the dollar peg
Reade, J. James; Volz, Ulrich - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent Chinese monetary policy is constrained by the dollar peg. To this end, we use a cointegration framework to examine whether Chinese interest rates are driven by the Fed's policy. In a second step, we estimate a monetary model for China, in which we include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303913
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The determinants of the euro-dollar exchange rate: synthetic fundamentals and a non-existing currency
Clostermann, Jörg; Schnatz, Bernd - 2000
At the beginning of 1999 the euro was launched as a common currency in 11 European countries. This paper addresses … empirically the medium to long-term forces driving the real euro-dollar exchange rate. Constructing a synthetic euro … determinants of the real euro-dollar exchange rate: the international real interest rate differential, relative prices in the …
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Analysis of the intraday effects of economic releases on the currency market
Rezania, Omid; Rachev, Svetlozar T.; Sun, Edward; … - 2010
Using four years of second-by-second executed trade data, we study the intraday effects of a representative group of scheduled economic releases on three exchange rates: EUR/$, JPY/$ and GBP/$. Using wavelets to analyze volatility behavior, we empirically show that intraday volatility clusters...
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Excess comovements between the Euro/US dollar and British pound/US dollar exchange rates
Kühl, Michael - 2009
The aim of this paper is to discuss excess comovements for the Euro/US dollar and British pound/US dollar exchange …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302725