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How far to go – and to remain – in the direction of highly expansionary monetary policy hinges on the balance of marginal benefits and costs of additional monetary easing and its expected evolution over time. This paper sketches a framework for assessing this balance and applies it to four...
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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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This paper investigates the implications of international financial sanctions for the reserve currency status of the US dollar. We propose a simple model of a reserve currency, demonstrate how the anticipation of financial sanctions can weaken the dollar's status, and evaluate the welfare...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use disaggregated data on US-UK trade to investigate the effects of exchange rate depreciation on trade in services both in the short- and long-run. Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on the three traditional categories of...
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Similar to many other developing countries Bangladesh, which is the country of my concern, has been pursuing an active exchange rate policy basically to maintain a viable external account position, and competitiveness of its products in world market. The purpose of the study is, therefore, to...
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Germany’s substantial current account surpluses are an ongoing subject of debate, both at the domestic and the European … consumption expenditures of an ageing population. This contribution gauges the profitability of Germany’s foreign wealth. It … greater benefits of a domestic investment offensive aiming to equip Germany for central long-term challenges. …
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the Eurozone, TARGET2 (Trans-European Automated Real-Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer). They criticize it under … assistance to some European States in trouble against the interests of other States - chiefly Germany. The next point is in their … Eurozone countries, thereby putting deficit countries in a prominent position in terms of money creation within the Eurozone …
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