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Interest Rate Volatility and Risk in Indian Banking
International Monetary Fund - 2004
The easing of controls on interest rates has led to higher interest rate volatility in India. Hence, there is a need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404135
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Anticipation and Surprises in Central Bank Interest Rate Policy : The Case of the Bundesbank
International Monetary Fund - 1998
Market reaction to a change in official interest rates will depend on the extent to which the change is anticipated, and on how it is interpreted as a signal of future policy. In this paper, a technique is developed to separate the anticipated and unanticipated components of such changes and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400820
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Informational Efficiency, Interest Rate Variability, and Central Bank Operations
International Monetary Fund - 1997
It is shown how the frequency of central bank intervention in financial markets can affect the incentives for economic agents to acquire information, which will be reflected in market prices and thus become available to policy makers. The optimal frequency of intervention, and therefore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403364
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The Demand Cor International Reserves and their Opportunity Cost
International Monetary Fund - 1988
An empirical study that shows that countries’ reserve holdings are sensitive to the rates at which they can borrow on international financial markets, this analysis confirms the view that holding major currencies as reserve assets has costs that are frequently unrecognized. Between 1978-82 for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395904
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Nominal Interest Rate Pegging Under Alternative Expectations Hypotheses
International Monetary Fund - 1988
Nominal interest rate pegging leads to instability in an IS-LM model with a vertical long-run Phillips curve and backward-looking inflation expectations. However, it does not lead to instability in several large multicountry econometric models, apparently primarily because these models have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396137
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The Sensitivity of Secondary Sovereign Loan Market Returns to Macroeconomlc Fundamentals
International Monetary Fund - 1990
arbitrage pricing theory framework. Returns are characterized by a limited response to unexpected changes in procyclical U … data to meet the empirical arbitrage pricing theory restrictions and the large proportion of return variance unexplained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396212
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Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rate Volatility : The Role of Ricardian Comparative Advantage
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. We incorporate a multi … exchange rate volatility depends on relative technological differences and trade costs. These differences highlight a new … volatility. We then test the importance of this channel using a large panel of cross-country data over 1970-97, and find strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399797
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Remoteness and Real Exchange Rate Volatility
International Monetary Fund - 2005
This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. The channel is examined by constructing … higher trade costs result in a larger nontradable sector. This, in turn, leads to higher real exchange rate volatility. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404193
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Thailand Financial Sector Assessment Program : Fixed Income
International Monetary Fund - 2008
The debt market in Thailand has made important strides since the financial crisis of 1997. The Thai government has made significant progress in building an orderly yield curve and is beginning to establish some benchmarks. However, more needs to be done if the government is to achieve its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247120
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Thailand : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: Fixed Income Markets
International Monetary Fund - 2009
This technical note focuses on fixed income markets for Thailand. The note recommends that Thailand should begin an orderly transition from merit-based regulation of corporate issuers and institutional investors to a disclosure-based regulatory system that opens the debt market to a larger and...
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