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reduce inflation and limit the real appreciation of the rouble. Given the strength of Russia’s balance of payments during the … interventions which were only partially sterilised. As a result, inflation remained persistently high. During the global financial … greater exchange rate flexibility should be permitted since (i) commodity exporting countries can successfully run inflation …
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The paper presents an analysis of exchange rate policy in Vietnam during 2008–2009. In early 2008, the country faced a … authorities responded with various exchange rate policy measures. The paper documents a shift in Vietnam's de facto exchange rate …
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To counter the sharp appreciation of the Swiss franc that set in in the wake of the European sovereign debt crisis, on September 6, 2011, the Swiss National Bank announced to enforce a minimum EUR/CHF exchange rate of CHF 1.20. We find that the simple, though elegant model for the exchange rate...
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During the first two years of monetary union, the euro's weakness surprised most market participants. Explanations proliferated ranging from fundamentals such as differences in growth prospects to psychological factors such as herd behaviour, but no single story fully accounts for the observed...
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China is both a major trading partner of the United States and the largest official holder of U.S. assets in the world. The value of Chinese foreign exchange reserves peaked at just over $4 trillion in June 2014, but has since declined to $3.19 trillion as of August 2016. This very large decline...
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rate movements start to influence the price inflation in China in a significant way. This paper estimates a structural …
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Krugman (1991)'s target zone model has become the reference of a large part of this literature. Despite its simplicity and elegance, empirical evidence has been lacking. Deriving from Krugman's model analytical expressions for the conditional volatility and density distribution close to the...
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We develop a vector autoregressive framework that combines an external instrument and heteroskedasticity for the identification of monetary policy shocks. We show that exploiting both types of information sharpens structural inference, allows testing both the relevance and exogeneity condition...
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monetary policy can affect real output. Surprisingly, the connection between money and inflation is less clear in the Vietnam … mechanism in Vietnam, using the vector autoregression approach (VAR) and focusing on the reduced-form relationships between …
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