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Revisiting the case for flexible exchange rates : proceedings of a conference held by the Bank of Canada, November 2000
Bacchetta, Philippe (contributor) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001728852
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Capital flows, exchange rates and monetary policy frameworks in Latin American and other economies : a report by a group of central banks including members of the Consultative Coun...
Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich - 2021
nine central banks that includes the members of the Consultative Council of the Americas (CCA) except the US Federal … whether they continue to be fit for purpose in the face of rapidly changing economic and financial conditions. Central banks … were asked to answer two questionnaires. The initial one asked central banks to report on the main drivers of swings in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517920
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International Financial Crises and Flexible Exchange Rates: Some Policy Lessons from Canada
Murray, John; Zelmer, Mark; Antia, Zahir - Bank of Canada - 2000
This paper examines the behaviour of the Canadian dollar from 1997 to 1999 to see if there is any evidence of excess volatility or significant overshooting. A small econometric model of the exchange rate, based on market fundamentals, is presented and used to make tentative judgments about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162368
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Canada’s Exchange Rate Regime and North American Economic Integration: The Role of Risk-Sharing Mechanisms
Zahir, Antia; Djoudad, Ramdane; St-Amant, Pierre - Bank of Canada - 1999
Our contribution in this paper is threefold. First, we survey the empirical literature on consumption smoothing mechanisms of regional economic shocks. Second, building on the work of Asdrubali et al. (1996), we present evidence on the role played by various smoothing mechanisms for specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005536894
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Canada and the IMF: Trailblazer or Prodigal Son?
Bordo, Michael; Gomes, Tamara; Schembri, Lawrence - Bank of Canada - 2009
Canada played an important role in the postwar establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yet it was also the first major member to challenge the orthodoxy of the BrettonWoods par value system by abandoning it in 1950 in favour of a floating, market-determined exchange rate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673248
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Does Exchange Rate Policy Matter for Growth?
Bailliu, Jeannine; Lafrance, Robert; Perrault, … - Bank of Canada - 2002
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Sterilized Intervention in Emerging-Market Economies: Trends, Costs, and Risks
Lavigne, Robert - Bank of Canada - 2008
The author examines recent trends in sterilized intervention among emerging-market economies, to determine the size and extent of this policy in relation to earlier periods of heavy reserve accumulation. He then analyzes whether the domestic costs and risks of substantial and prolonged...
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The Impact of Common Currencies on Financial Markets: A Literature Review and Evidence from the Euro Area
Karlinger, Liliane - Bank of Canada - 2002
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External Stability, Real Exchange Rate Adjustment and the Exchange Rate Regime in Emerging-Market Economies
Gervais, Olivier; Schembri, Lawrence; Suchanek, Lena - Bank of Canada - 2011
In emerging-market economies, real exchange rate adjustment is critical for maintaining a sustainable current account position and thereby for helping to reduce macroeconomic and financial instability. The authors examine empirically two related hypotheses: (i) that real exchange rate...
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