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We propose a simple model of the international monetary system. We study the world supply and demand for reserve assets denominated in different currencies under a variety of scenarios: a Hegemon vs. a multipolar world; abundant vs. scarce reserve assets; a gold exchange standard vs. a floating...
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Previous studies have focused on when the renminbi will play a significant role as an international currency, but less … attention has been paid to where. We fill this gap by contrasting two answers to the question. One is that the renminbi will … assume the role of a global currency similar to the U.S. dollar. Supporters point to China's widely diversified trade and …
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China in the coming years. China had been a prime example of exported growth, benefiting from learning by doing, and by …, and the Global Financial Crisis forced China toward rebalancing, which is a work in progress. Reflecting on the …
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This paper analyzes the consequences of the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi for the global monetary system … moderate the perceived need for insurance, and China would have to loom large in both solutions …
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-for-tat responses between just the US and China would likely leave the dollar's role essentially unchanged. If both countries coordinate …
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market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank's desire to hold a sizable …
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We analyze a two-country economy with complete markets, featuring two national currencies as well as a global (crypto)currency. If the global currency is used in both countries, the national nominal interest rates must be equal and the exchange rate between the national currencies is a risk-...
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The recent rise of digital currencies opens the door to their use in parallel alongside official currencies ("dollar'') for pricing and transactions. We construct a simple New Keynesian framework with parallel currencies as pricing units and sticky prices. Relative prices become a state...
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This paper presents a tractable model of a global economy in which countries can use a broad range of policy instruments---the nominal interest rate, taxes on imports and exports, taxes on capital flows or foreign exchange interventions. Low demand may lead to unemployment because of downward...
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It is generally very difficult to measure the effects of a currency depreciation on a country's balance sheet and financing costs given the endogenous properties of the exchange rate. History provides at least one natural experiment to test whether an exogenous exchange rate depreciation can be...
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