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We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our … approach uses a compositional multinomial logit model, in which currency choice depends on the characteristics of both the … currency and the country. We use unique quarterly panel data of Norwegian imports from OECD countries for the 1996-2006 period …
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foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used … measures aimed at foreign currency lending have a clear impact on lending to residents. Our analysis shows that not all foreign …
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This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige's paper with the title "Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the 'Shadow Economy'?", in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises against...
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This paper investigates capital market integration in the major Central European emerging economies by testing the covered and uncovered interest parity conditions vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar and the DM/euro. The results for the Central European economies since 1997 are contrasted against those...
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Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive …, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter's currency. We then study … the relationship between invoicing currency choices and the response of import prices to exchange rate changes. We find …
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This paper examines persistence in the cryptocurrency market. Two different long-memory methods (R/S analysis and fractional integration) are used to analyse it in the case of the four main cryptocurrencies (BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ripple, Dash) over the sample period 2013-2017. The findings indicate...
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When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the geography of trade costs across Central Europe. There...
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Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and...
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