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International Portfolio Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility for Emerging Markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility, using monthly … probability Markov-switching model. We find that net equity (bond) inflows drive the exchange rate to a high (low) volatility … state. In particular, net bond inflows increase the probability of remaining in the low volatility state in the case of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009868
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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2021
The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316298
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Dissecting the PPP Puzzle : The Unconventional Roles of Nominal Exchange Rate and Price Adjustments
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S.; Bergman, U. Michael - 2021
The conventional view, as expounded by sticky-price models, is that price adjustment determines the PPP reversion rate. This study examines the mechanism by which PPP deviations are corrected. Nominal exchange rate adjustment, not price adjustment, is shown to be the key engine governing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319983
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A Panel Data Investigation of Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Growth
MacDonald, Ronald - 2010
The paper investigates the role of real exchange rate misalignment on long-run growth for a set of ninety countries using time series data from 1980 to 2004. We first estimate a panel data model (using fixed and random effects) for the real exchange rate, with different model specifications, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142797
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Offshoring and Volatility of Demand
Benz, Sebastian - 2016
offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume … has a pro-offshoring effect. And 2), under this same condition, offshoring increases volatility in domestic employment of … offshoring firms and the volatility of offshore employment of these same firms is larger than volatility of domestic employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986173
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012270
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Pulling Up the Tarnished Anchor : The End of Silver As a Global Unit of Account
Fernholz, Ricardo T. - 2017
suggests that a global bimetallic system, in which the gold price of silver uctuates, has higher price volatility than a global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955754
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Exchange Rate Misalignment Estimates - Sources of Differences
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013
We study the differences of currency misalignment estimates obtained from alternative datasets derived from two International Comparison Program (ICP) surveys. A decomposition exercise reveals that the year 2005 misalignment estimates are substantially affected by the ICP price revision....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092474
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Sources of Real Exchange Rate Volatility and International Financial Integration : A Dynamic GMM Panel Approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the determinants of volatility of real exchange … and monetary) can account for volatility of real exchange rates in emerging economies, with international financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117985
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Fiscal Shocks and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics : Some Evidence for Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of fiscal shocks using a two-country macroeconomic model for output, labour input, government spending and relative prices which provides the orthogonality restrictions for obtaining the structural shocks. Dynamic simulation techniques are then applied, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316574