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Since 2007, an increase in risk or risk aversion has resulted in a US dollar appreciation and greater deviations from covered interest parity (CIP). In contrast, prior to 2007, risk had no impact on the dollar, and CIP held. To explain these phenomena, we develop a two-country model featuring...
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calibration matching data from the U.S. and G10 currency countries implies that persistent shocks to relative demand, reflected in … persistent interest rate differentials, account for 75% of the variance in the dollar/G10 exchange rate. Shocks to currency …
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We study the effects of dollar swap lines using high frequency responses in asset prices around policy announcements. News about expanded dollar swap lines causes a reduction in liquidity premia, compression of deviations from covered interest parity (CIP), and depreciation of the dollar. Equity...
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Financial markets play two roles with implications for the exchange rate: they accommodate risk sharing and act as a source of shocks. In prevailing theories, these roles are seen as mutually exclusive and individually face challenges in explaining exchange rate dynamics. However, we demonstrate...
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Frequent, yet uninformed, fund flows in Chilean pension plans generate substantial trading in currency markets due to … pressure to currency forward markets and results in violations of the covered interest rate parity. Using trading data and bank …
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-factor model. We identify them as a dollar factor and a euro factor. Exchange rates are thus driven by global, US, and Euro …
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zone, UK, and Japan, and issue more debt denominated in the big four currencies (US dollar, euro, pound, yen) hoard more IR … economic factors. We also find that TARGET2 balances matter for the currency composition in the euro zone; commodity … effects induced by Euro/USD exchange rate changes diminish the significance of the GFC in explaining the currency composition …
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emphasizes the joint determination of countries' portfolio choices and trading currency. We find that unilateral protectionism on …
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borrowing in foreign currency (FX) and lending in domestic currency, largely in the form of trade credit, accumulating currency … more prevalent when foreign currency borrowing is relatively cheaper than local currency borrowing, and it is associated … with expansions in both gross trade credit and sales. Firms that were more active in carry-trades, accumulating currency …
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This paper explores the relationship between different funding structures--including the source, instrument, currency …
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