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Precautionary Demand for Foreign Assets in Sudden Stop Economies; An Assessment of the New Merchantilism

Mendoza, Enrique G.; Durdu, Ceyhun Bora; Terrones, Marco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

assets via business cycle volatility, financial globalization, and endogenous Sudden Stops. Our results show that financial … globalization and Sudden Stop risk are plausible explanations of the surge in reserves but cyclical volatility, which has declined …

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Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies

Mendoza, Enrique G. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper shows that the dominant view that the high variability of real exchange rates is due to movements in exchange rate-adjusted prices of tradable goods does not hold for Mexican data for periods with a managed exchange rate. The relative price of nontradables accounts for up to 70...

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