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Currency option implied volatility predicts more efficiently exchange rate volatility for the Polish zloty relative to … GARCH model shows a positive impact of the introduction of the Euro on exchange rate volatility for the Polish zloty … (negative for the Czech koruna), related to its larger exposure to external shocks. For countries in transition to Euro …
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This paper examines opposing views on the euro's challenge to the dollar as an international currency. One view … euro has significantly overtaken the legacy currencies as a reserve currency. Generally, large economic size alone is … insufficient to challenge the network externalities supporting vehicle currencies, but scope exists for the euro to advance as an …
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estimation results show not only that volatilities are different between the two regimes but also that some of the cross …
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derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national … currency with the euro, but can choose when to request permission to do so). For most of these countries, adopting the euro … convergence with the rest of the euro area. …
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This paper seeks to draw lessons from the IMF’s experience in handling financial crises around the globe over the past ten years that are relevant to the challenges faced by countries in Latin America, especially in the wake of the recent crisis in Argentina. Experience suggests that...
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Bid-ask spreads for Asian emerging market currencies increased sharply during the Asian crisis. A key question is whether such wide spreads were excessive or explained by models of bid-ask spreads. Precrisis estimates of standard models show that spreads during the crisis were in most cases...
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This study looks at the first two years of the banking crisis that erupted in Indonesia in late 1997. It finds that the banking sector was weak at the outset, and that governance problems intensified the crisis and seriously delayed its resolution. Although a strategy was put in place over the...
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several of their features were nonetheless specific to this part of the world. These banking crises were the very prototype of …
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estimation finds these economic indicators to be significant for emerging market countries during the Mexican, Asian, and Russian …
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effectiveness of financial safety nets, fostered foreign currency demand, and accelerated a currency crisis, thereby further … triple banking, currency, and fiscal crisis. …
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