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The Emergence of the Euro as an International Currency

Alogoskoufis, George; Portes, Richard; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

*The European Union will enter Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The development of euro … financial markets and thickness externalities in the use of the euro as means of payment will be the major factors determining … the importance of the euro as an international currency. As euro securities markets become deeper and more liquid and …

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Capital Controls and Macroprudential Measures: What Are They Good For?

Forbes, Kristin; Fratzscher, Marcel; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Are capital controls and macroprudential measures successful in achieving their objectives? Assessing their effectiveness is complicated by selection bias and endogeneity; countries which change their capital-flow management measures (CFMs) often share specific characteristics and are responding...

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Bubble Thy Neighbor: Portfolio Effects and Externalities from Capital Controls

Forbes, Kristin; Fratzscher, Marcel; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We use changes in Brazil’s tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for direct portfolio effects and externalities from capital controls on investor portfolios. The analysis is structured based on information from investor interviews. We find that an increase in Brazil’s tax on...

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Monetary Policy Shocks and Portfolio Choice

Fratzscher, Marcel; Saborowski, Christian; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper shows that monetary policy shocks exert a substantial effect on the size and composition of capital flows and the trade balance for the United States, with a 100 basis point easing raising net capital inflows and lowering the trade balance by 1% of GDP, and explaining about 20-25% of...

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Asset Prices, News Shocks and the Current Account

Fratzscher, Marcel; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We analyze the relationship between asset prices and current account positions estimating a Bayesian VAR for a broad set of 42 industrialized and emerging market countries. To derive model-based identifying restrictions, we model asset price shocks as news shocks about future productivity in a...

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The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows

Portes, Richard; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We apply a new approach to a new panel data set on bilateral gross cross-border equity flows between 14 countries, 1989-96. The remarkably good results have strong implications for theories of asset trade. We find that the geography of information heavily determines the pattern of international...

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Sovereign CDS and Bond Pricing Dynamics in the Euro-area

Palladini, Giorgia; Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

six Euro-area countries over the period 2004-2011. As a first step, the supposed non stationarity of the two series is …

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Finance, Trade and Development: Issues in Transatlantic Cooperation

Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

Despite current economic problems and conflicts - or perhaps as their cause - the concordance of policies among the major industrial countries in the first half of the 1980s in dealing with finance, trade and development is at a peak. This has been the result not so much of cooperation or...

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The European Contribution to International Financial Stability

Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper considers how the European Union, and more specifically the euro area, can contribute to international … internal stability in the euro area and has promoted a dynamic development of capital markets. But in some respects, monetary … positions on exchange-rate policy, the international financial architecture, and the euro as an international currency. …

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Global Financial Markets and Financial Stability: Europe's Role

Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

interaction between globalisation and regional integration. This paper discusses the internationalisation of the euro and draws …Europe's contribution to the international financial system is a new currency, the euro. Economic and Monetary Union in …

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