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exchange rate so as to facilitate terms of trade adjustment. We show that optimal nominal exchange rate volatility will reflect … bias in production. Quantitatively, we find the optimal exchange rate volatility should be significantly less than would be … optimal exchange rate volatility may be non-monotonic …
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Fixed exchange rates are less volatile than floating rates. But the volatility of macroeconomic variables such as money … exchange rate volatility and macroeconomic stability …
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A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international … exchange rate volatility, even after controlling for a host of features, including the endogenous nature of the exchange rate …
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On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon closed the gold window and imposed a 10 percent surcharge on all dutiable imports in an effort to force other countries to revalue their currencies against the dollar. The import surcharge was lifted four months later after the Smithsonian agreement...
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central banks in the absence of any formal arrangements among their governments to limit exchange rate volatility. The … advocates of the proposals for change have made their assessment of the global costs of exchange rate volatility and (their …
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This paper examines Japanese foreign exchanges interventions from April 1991 to March 2001 based on newly disclosed official data. All the yen-selling (dollar-purchasing) interventions were carried out when the yen/dollar rate was below 125, while all the yen-purchasing (dollar-selling)...
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This paper empirically studies the effect of instrumental and institutional stabilization of the exchange rate on the integration of goods markets. An instrumental stabilization of the exchange rate is accomplished through intervention in the foreign exchange market, or by monetary policies. An...
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displayed a surprisingly high degree of time-conditional volatility. This volatility can be explained statistically using … autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models, but there remains the question of the economic source of this volatility … known Fed intervention generally decreased volatility over the full period. Further, results indicate that intervention need …
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The analysis focuses on the government budget constraint and the resolution of inconsistent implications of different policy instruments under that constraint. We show how, under floating exchange rates, external shocks or internal structural reforms may cause jumps in inflation and the exchange...
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This paper examines the viability of dual exchange-rate regimes. Typically, under such a regime the exchange rates applicable to current-account(commercial) transactions and to capital-account (financial) transactions differ from each other. This difference may be determined in the free market...
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