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The worst of both worlds : fiscal policy and fixed exchange rates
Born, Benjamin; D'Ascanio, Francesco; Müller, Gernot J.; … - 2019
Under fixed exchange rates, fiscal policy is an effective tool. According to classical views because it impacts the real exchange rate, according to Keynesian views because it impacts output. Both views have merit because the effects of government spending are asymmetric. A spending cut lowers...
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China's exchange rate and financial repression : the conflicted emergence of the renminbi as an international currency
McKinnon, Ronald I.; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014
repression in domestic interest rates→to avoid an avalanche of foreign capital inflows that would threaten inflation and asset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249643
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Exchange rate misalignments and crises
Stein, Jerome L.; Paladino, Giovanna - 1999
The problem is to evaluate the likelihood that a country will face a currency or balance of payments crisis over a given horizon. When is it rational for market participants to expect a depreciation of the currency? On the basis of considerable empirical studies we know that in both banking and...
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Foreign currency denominated assets and international shock absorption in Switzerland and Japan
Schnabl, Gunther - 2015
Currencies of countries with persistent current account surpluses and high foreign currency denominated assets such as the Swiss franc and Japanese yen are under a persistent appreciation pressure, what restricts the degree of freedom in the choice of exchange rate regime. Official announcements...
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Macroeconomic policy and development in India : some analytical issues
Sen, Partha - 2022
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Pegxit pressure : evidence from the classical gold standard
Mitchener, Kris; Pina, Gonçalo - 2016
We develop a simple model that highlights the costs and benefits of fixed exchange rates as they relate to trade, and show that negative export-price shocks reduce fiscal revenue and increase the likelihood of an expected currency devaluation. Using a new high-frequency data set on...
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How economic, political and institutional factors influence the choice of exchange rate regimes? : new evidence from selected countries of the MENA region
Maraoui, Najia; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Khefacha, Islem; … - 2022
In this paper, we investigate how economic, political and institutional factors affect the choice of exchange rate regimes, using data on eight MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries over the 1984-2016 period. Specifically, we run random-effects ordered probit regressions of the...
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Exchange rate regimes and macroeconomic stability in Central and Eastern Europe
De Grauwe, Paul; Schnabl, Gunther - 2004
This paper explores the impact of the exchange rate regime on inflation and output in the Central and Eastern European … exchange rate stability have a better explanatory power than the de jure measures in the inflation and growth equations. For … the whole observation period the estimations reveal a significant impact of exchange rate stability on low inflation as …
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Monetary policy transmission and trade-offs in the United States : old and new
Hofmann, Boris; Peersman, Gert - 2017 - First version: July 2017, this version: October 2017
considerably stronger relative to the impact on GDP since the mid-1980s, while the effects on inflation have become weaker …
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An empirical investigation into exchange rate regime choice and exchange rate volatility
Berger, Helge; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2000
We test a simple model of exchange rate regime choice with data for 65 non-OECD countries covering the period 1980-94.We find that the variance of output at home and in potential target c ountries as well as the correlation between home and foreign real activity are powerful and robust...
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