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The determinants of the euro-dollar exchange rate: synthetic fundamentals and a non-existing currency

Clostermann, Jörg; Schnatz, Bernd - 2000

At the beginning of 1999 the euro was launched as a common currency in 11 European countries. This paper addresses … empirically the medium to long-term forces driving the real euro-dollar exchange rate. Constructing a synthetic euro … determinants of the real euro-dollar exchange rate: the international real interest rate differential, relative prices in the …

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Foreign Bank Entry into Emerging Economies: An Empirical Assessment of the Determinants and Risks Predicated on German FDI Data

Wezel, Torsten - 2004

The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected emerging markets of central and eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia between 1994 and 2001. Emphasis is placed on testing variables of macroeconomic and financial sector risk along...

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Does co-financing by multilateral development banks increase "risky" direct investment in emerging markets?

Wezel, Torsten - 2004

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated that the presence of an official lender in a project gives...

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Consumption Smoothing Across States and Time: International Insurance vs. Foreign Loans

von Furstenberg, George M. - 2004

When countries, and macroeconomic models, open up to international capital markets, the welfare gains available through completion of financial markets for contingencies potentially are much greater than those available from access to noncontingent international borrowing. Intercasual insurance,...

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Currency blocs in the 21st century

Fischer, Christoph - 2011

economic variables determine a given country's currency bloc affiliation. The dollar bloc differs from the euro bloc in that …

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On the nonlinear influence of Reserve Bank of Australia interventions on exchange rates

Reitz, Stefan; Ruelke, Jan C.; Taylor, Mark P. - 2010

This paper applies nonlinear econometric models to empirically investigate the effectiveness of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) exchange rate policy. First, results from a STARTZ model are provided revealing nonlinear mean reversion of the Australian dollar exchange rate in the sense that...

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Exchange rate dynamics, expectations, and monetary policy

Chen, Qianying - 2011

This paper re-investigates the implications of monetary policy rules on changes in exchange rate, in a risk-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy...

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Fool the markets? Creative accounting, fiscal transparency and sovereign risk premia

Bernoth, Kerstin; Wolff, Guntram B. - 2006

We investigate the effects of official fiscal data and creative accounting signals on interest rate spreads between bond yields in the European Union. Our model predicts that risk premia contained in government bond spreads should increase in both, the official fiscal position and the expected...

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Fiscal institutions, fiscal policy and sovereign risk premia

Hallerberg, Mark; Wolff, Guntram B. - 2006

. The results are robust to controlling for country fixed effects and different estimation methodologies. …

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Political risk and export promotion: evidence from Germany

Moser, Christoph; Nestmann, Thorsten; Wedow, Michael - 2006

Political risk represents an important hidden transaction cost that reduces international trade. This paper investigates the claim that German public export credit guarantees (Hermes guarantees) mitigate this friction to trade flows and hence promote exports. We employ an empirical trade gravity...

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