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. By contrast, we combine these two explanations in the context of an innovativepanel estimation methodology.. …
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There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutionsare fundamental for a country’s prosperity. The paper focuses on political events inItaly over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 hashelped insulate Italy’s financial...
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A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...
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We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchangerates using a panel estimation …
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This paper investigates whether information from foreign yield curves helps forecast domestic yieldcurves out-of-sample. A nested methodology to forecast yield curves in domestic and internationalsettings is applied on three major countries (the US, Germany and the UK). This novel methodologyis...
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This study focuses on longer term influences and provides some potential explanations in ECU markets which were regarder by some financial market participants as puzzles.
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. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation … determinants of inflation (such as fiscal policy, the business cycle, and openness to international trade), and the endogeneity of … systematically and robustly associated with lower inflation. The exact form of the monetary target matters somewhat (especially for …
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model of inflation determination estimated on the Czech data.We characterize the estimated components of CPI, WPI and import …
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This paper analyses the impact of the shift away from a US dollar focus of systemically important emerging market economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US dollar exchange rate regimes remain pervasive and...
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This paper estimates export and import price equations for 41 countries –including 28 emerging market economies. Further, it relates the estimated elasticities to structural factors and tests for statistical breaks in the relation between trade prices and exchange rates. Results indicate that...
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