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Renminbising China's Foreign Assets
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Ma, Guonan; McCauley, Robert N. - 2021
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, China has rolled out a number of initiatives to actively promote the international role of the renminbi and to denominate more of its international claims away from the US dollar and into the renminbi. This paper discusses the factors shaping the prospects...
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Limits of Monetary Policy Autonomy by East Asian Debtor Central Banks
Loeffler, Axel - 2013
Due to buoyant capital inflows East Asian central banks with exchange rate targets accumulate foreign reserves and thereby increase surplus liquidity. East Asian central banks with more flexible exchange rate regimes also face surplus liquidity that mainly emanates from past accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091528
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International Reserves Before and After the Global Crisis : Is There No End to Hoarding?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2015
We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025974
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A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of International Reserves
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013
Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095899
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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2014
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060469
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Currency Unions, Trade, and Heterogeneity
Chen, Natalie - 2018
How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this framework to the effect of currency unions on international trade. While we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912676
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The Relationship between Exchange Rates and International Trade : A Literature Review
Auboin, Marc - 2012
This paper surveys a wide body of economic literature on the relationship between currencies and trade. Specifically, two main issues are investigated: the impact on international trade of exchange rate volatility and of currency misalignments. On average, exchange rate volatility has a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104172
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Business Cycles, International Trade and Capital Flows : Evidence from Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. The result indicate that within...
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The Evolution of the East Asian Currency Baskets - Still Undisclosed and Changing
Schnabl, Gunther - 2021
Both before and after the Asian crisis, the dollar has been the dominant anchor and reserve currency in East Asia. Due to underdeveloped capital markets and the limited international role of their domestic currencies, the East Asian countries (except Japan) are likely to continue to stabilize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317274
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Trade and Currency Weapons
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2018
The debate on trade wars and currency wars has re-emerged since the Great recession of 2009. We study the two forms of non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and to the real exchange rate, based on product level data...
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