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volatility rises and as export demand shocks become more correlated. These theoretical results are confirmed by empirical …
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domestic investment and foreign direct investment (FDI), and the correlation between exchange rate volatility and investment … exchange rate volatility under a flexible exchange rate is shown to depend on the nature of the shocks. If the dominant shocks … correlation between exchange rate volatility and the level of investment …
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The paper presents a model of a monetary union designed to illuminate monetary and exchange rate policy in the West African Monetary Union (UMOA). Emphasis is placed on the interaction of the members of UMOA with each other, through the common central bank, and on their interaction with France...
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There has been a significant correlation between United States inward foreign direct investment and the United States real exchange rate since the 1970s. Two alternative reasons for this relationship are that the real exchange rate affects the relative cost of labor and that the real exchange...
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the welfare ranking of exchange rate regimes, and to analyze the linkages between volatility of shocks, the volume of … diversify internationally by foreign direct investment. Volatility is shown to induce both higher international trade in goods … show that the volatility of employment in the presence of real shocks is lower under a floating exchange rate regime, but …
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We examine the connection between exchange rates and foreign direct investment that arises when globally integrated capital markets are subject to informational imperfections. These imperfections cause external financing to be more expensive than internal financing, so that changes in wealth...
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theoretically that volatility in fundamental variables such as the nominal interest rate that drive exchange rate volatility can … investment on exchange rate volatility. It is the first paper to provide empirical evidence that interest rate volatility may …
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This paper introduces a framework for analyzing the role of financial factors as a source of instability in small open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic open economy model with a tradeable good produced with capital and a country-specific factor. We also assume that firms face credit...
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markets on the cost of macroeconomic volatility there. We find that macroeconomic volatility has a potentially large impact on … industries with costly capacity, the multinationals would tend to invest in the more stable emerging markets. Higher volatility …
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It is well known that high-frequency asset returns are fat-tailed relative to the Gaussian distribution tails are typically reduced but not eliminated when returns are standardized by volatilities estimated from popular models such as GARCH. We consider two major dollar exchange rates, and we...
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