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Covered Interest Parity Deviations : Macrofinancial Determinants
Cerutti, Eugenio - 2019
For about three decades until the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Covered Interest Parity (CIP) appeared to hold quite closely-even as a broad macroeconomic relationship applying to daily or weekly data. Not only have CIP deviations significantly increased since the GFC, but potential macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892902
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Covered Interest Parity Deviations : Macrofinancial Determinants
Cerutti, Eugenio - 2019
This paper studies how several macrofinancial factors are associated over time with the evolution of covered interest parity (CIP) deviations in the decade after the Global Financial Crisis. Changes in a number of risk- and policy-related factors have a significant association with the evolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865278
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The Logic of Currency Crises
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2021
Once one recognizes that governments borrow international reserves and exercise other policy options to defend fixed exchange rates during currency crises, the question arises: What factors determine a government's decision to abandon a currency peg or hang on? In a setting of purposeful action...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213429
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Capital Flows, the Current Account, and the Real Exchange Rate : Consequences of Liberalization and Stabilization
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2021
This paper develops a dynamic framework in which macroeconomic liberalization and stabilization measures of the type recently seen in Latin America can be studied. The model is sufficiently general to cover both polar cases of a closed capital account and free private capital mobility, so the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243955
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Monetary Sovereignty, Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls : The Trilemma in the Interwar Period
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2012
disorder in the world economy. The interwar disorder often is linked to policies inconsistent with the constraint of the open … yield. This historical analytic narrative is compelling with significant ramifications for today's world, if true but … empirically controversial. We apply theory and empirics to the interwar data and find strong support for the logic of the trilemma …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755788
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Lender of Last Resort and Global Liquidity
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2009
One important lesson of the crisis is the need to take a systemic view of measures aimed at financial stability. Measures that enhance the stability of a single institution could be inimical to the stability of the financial system as a whole
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561662
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Capital Flows, the Current Account, and the Real Exchange Rate : Consequences of Liberalization and Stabilization
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1984
This paper develops a dynamic framework in which macroeconomic liberalization and stabilization measures of the type recently seen in Latin America can be studied. The model is sufficiently general to cover both polar cases of a closed capital account and free private capital mobility, so the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477560
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Covered Interest Parity Deviations : Macrofinancial Determinants
Cerutti, Eugenio M. - 2019
For several decades until the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Covered Interest Parity (CIP) appeared to hold quite closely--even as a broad macroeconomic relationship applying to daily or weekly data. Not only have CIP deviations significantly increased since the GFC, but potential macrofinancial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480075
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Monetary Sovereignty, Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls : The Trilemma in the Interwar period
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2004
disorder in the world economy. The interwar disorder often is linked to policies inconsistent with the constraint of the open … yield. This historical analytic narrative is compelling with significant ramifications for today's world, if true but … empirically controversial. We apply theory and empirics to the interwar data and find strong support for the logic of the trilemma …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468300
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The Logic of Currency Crises
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1994
Once one recognizes that governments borrow international reserves and exercise other policy options to defend fixed exchange rates during currency crises, the question arises: What factors determine a government's decision to abandon a currency peg or hang on? In a setting of purposeful action...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474296