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In early 2020, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Representative Office for the Americas contacted a group of nine central banks that includes the members of the Consultative Council of the Americas (CCA) except the US Federal Reserve (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia,...
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The paper examines how the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis is affected by a modern variation of the standard model that allows product differentiation (within the traded and nontraded goods sectors) with the number of firms determined exogenously or endogenously. The hypothesis is found to be...
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this phenomenon, which has been observed for several other countries, may be due to a change in the behaviour of inflation …. Specifically, moving from a high to a low-inflation environment has reduced the expected persistence of cost changes and, by … policy has responded more aggressively to inflation deviations over the low pass-through period relative to the high pass …
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The observed predictability of excess returns in equity and foreign exchange markets has largely been attributed to the presence of time-varying risk premiums in these markets. For example, excess equity returns were found to be explained by various financial and economic variables. Similarly,...
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Over the past few years, the ability of the United States to finance its current account deficit has been facilitated by massive purchases of U.S. Treasury bonds and agency securities by Asian central banks. In this process, Asian central banks have accumulated large stockpiles of U.S.-dollar...
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The paper examines how the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis is affected by a modern variation of the standard model that allows product differentiation (within the traded and nontraded goods sectors) with the number of firms determined exogenously or endogenously. The hypothesis is found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976803
This paper examines the effectiveness of international capital controls in India over time by analyzing daily return differentials in the non-deliverable forward (NDF) markets using the self-exciting threshold autoregressive (SETAR) methodology. We begin with a detailed narrative on the...
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are already high. By contrast, upward pressures on output (and perhaps also on inflation) should lead to decreases in …, responding to future inflation, rather than the current rate, does not generate significant welfare improvements. While some of … should lower rates when output or inflation is pushing upward is more specific to limited-participation models. This …
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