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We analyze the effect of a major central bank digital currency (CBDC) - the digital euro - on the payment industry to … firms increase in response to positive announcements on the digital euro. Bank stocks do not react. We estimate a loss in …
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This paper explores how non-U.S. central banks behave when firms in their economies engage in currency mismatch, borrowing more heavily in dollars than justified by their operating exposures. We begin by documenting that, in a panel of 53 countries, central bank holdings of dollar reserves are...
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In this paper, we show that cross-border portfolio flows around the peak of the European Crisis induced households to rebalance their portfolios toward housing. Estimating difference-in-differences regressions around Draghi's "Whatever It Take" speech in July 2012 with household data from the...
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This paper shows that the price impact of foreign official (FO) purchases or sales of U.S. Treasuries (USTs) is about twice as large as previously reported in the literature once critical sources of endogeneity are addressed. We also show that prevailing estimates of this price impact suffer...
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The last few years have seen a significant re-evaluation of the models used to analyze crises in emerging markets. Recent models typically stress financial constraints or distorted financial incentives. While this certainly represents progress, these models share a weakness with the earlier...
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of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …
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The creation of the euro and the European Central Bank is a remarkable and unprecedented event in economic and … some advocate the euro despite its economic problems because of its assumed favorable effects on European political …
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. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our … central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro will lead European prices to become more insulated from exchange …
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conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty … Euro. " Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One approach official Stage 2 offers of … contingent Euro forward contracts with value dates at the start of" Stage 3, allows a highly credible preannouncement of the …
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. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … pricing models. We use a synthetic Euro excess return along with a Yen excess return to assess country equity sensitivities to …
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