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Are financially dollarized countries more prone to costly crises?

Arteta, Carlos O. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2003

In view of the role of liability dollarization in recent financial crises, whether or not the widespread presence of … is an open and pressing question. Using a comprehensive dataset on deposit and credit dollarization for a large number of … developing and transition economies, I find little evidence that high dollarization heightens the probability of banking crises …

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The contributions of domestic and external factors to Latin American devaluation crises: an early warning systems approach

Kamin, Steven B.; Babson, Oliver D. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1999

In this paper we develop a modified "early warning system" (EWS) approach to identifying the roles of domestic and external factors in Latin America's crises. Several probit models of balance-of-payments crises, based on different identified sets of crisis dates, were estimated for six Latin...

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An international arbitrage pricing model with PPP deviations

Levine, Ross - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1986

This paper develops an intertemporal, international asset pricing model for use in applied theoretical and empirical research. An important feature of the model is that it incorporates both stochastic inflation rates and stochastic Purchasing Power Parity deviations (PPP). The model derives the...

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Are banks market timers or market makers? Explaining foreign exchange trading profits

Ammer, John; Brunner, Allan D. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1994

We analyze the foreign exchange trading earnings of large U.S commercial banks over the past several years. In particular, we use several approaches to try to determine to what extent these profits can be attributed either to position-taking by banks or to the provision of intermediation...

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Tests of the foreign exchange risk premium using the expected second moments implied by option pricing

Lyons, Richard K. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1986

This paper applies a new method to investigate the foreign exchange risk premium. The method is new in the sense that it utilizes the time-varying second moment expectations implied by foreign currency option pricing. The vast empirical literature on the risk premium generally neglects the role...

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The profitability of U.S. intervention

Leahy, Michael P. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1989

In this paper I address some of the issues associated with measuring the profits and losses from intervention and show that U.S intervention since the beginning of generalized floating in 1973 has earned positive economic profits for the U.S. monetary authorities. Profitability has been largest...

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Determining foreign exchange risk and bank capital requirements

Leahy, Michael P. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1991

This paper examines three alternative measures of exchange rate risk that could be used to develop a risk-based capital requirement for banks with foreign-exchange exposure. One measure, the standard deviation of the portfolio, is constructed under the assumption that exchange rate changes are...

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The use of the parallel market rate as a guide to setting the official exchange rate

Ghei, Nita; Kamin, Steven B. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1996

This paper addresses the merits of using the parallel exchange rate as a guide to setting the official exchange rate. Ideally, policymakers would set the exchange rate at the level that would balance trade and sustainable capital flows--that level is referred to as the equilibrium exchange rate....

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The high-frequency effects of U.S. macroeconomic data releases on prices and trading activity in the global interdealer foreign exchange market

Chaboud, Alain P.; Chernenko, Sergey; Howorka, Edward; … - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2004

We introduce a new high-frequency foreign exchange dataset from EBS (Electronic Broking Service) that includes trading volume in the global interdealer spot market, data not previously available to researchers. The data also gives live transactable quotes, rather than the indicative quotes that...

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Understanding the empirical literature on purchasing power parity: the post-Bretton Woods era

Edison, Hali J.; Gagnon, Joseph E.; Melick, William R. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1994

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