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Was Unofficial Dollarisation/Euroisation an Amplifier of the 'Great Recession' of 2007-09 in Emerging Economies
Chitu, Livia - 2012
account, including fast pre-crisis credit growth, current account deficits, trade and financial openness, market regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100826
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Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves : The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar
Papaioannou, Elias; Portes, Richard; Siourounis, Gregorios - 2021
Foreign exchange reserve accumulation has risen dramatically in recent years. The introduction of the euro, greater liquidity in other major currencies, and the rising current account deficits and external debt of the United States have increased the pressure on central banks to diversify away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317364
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Exchange Rate Anchoring - Is there Still a De Facto US Dollar Standard?
Bracke, Thierry - 2011
The paper provides a measure of exchange rate anchoring behavior across 149 emerging market and developing economies for the 1980-2010 period. An extension of the Frankel and Wei (2008) methodology is used to determine whether exchange rates are pegged or floating, and in the case of pegs, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124257
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What Explains Global Exchange Rate Movements during the Financial Crisis
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009
A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper finds that negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159289
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Do China and Oil Exporters Influence Major Currency Configurations?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2015
This paper analyses the impact of the shift away from a US dollar focus of systemically important emerging market economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US dollar exchange rate regimes remain pervasive and...
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Dominant-Currency Pricing and the Global Output Spillovers from Us Dollar Appreciation
Georgiadis, Georgios; Schumann, Ben - 2021
Different export-pricing currency paradigms have different implications for a host of issues that are critical for policymakers such as business cycle co-movement, optimal monetary policy, optimum currency areas and international monetary policy co-ordination. Unfortunately, the literature has...
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A Structural Break in the Effects of Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention on Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate Volatility
Hillebrand, Eric T.; Schnabl, Gunther - 2021
While up to the late 1990s Japanese foreign exchange intervention was fully sterilized, Japanese monetary authorities left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous research on foreign exchange intervention, unsterilized...
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Global Risk and the Dollar
Georgiadis, Georgios; Müller, Gernot J.; Schumann, Ben - 2021
How does global risk impact the world economy? In taking up this question, we focus on the dollar’s role in the international adjustment mechanism. First, we rely on high-frequency surprises in the price of gold to identify the effects of global risk shocks in a Bayesian Proxy VAR model. They...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310676
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On the Importance of Prior Relationships in Bank Loans to Retail Customers
Puri, Manju - 2011
borrower characteristics as well as internal and external credit scores. Our results suggest that relationships of all kinds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119139
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Determinants of Credit-Less Recoveries
Bijsterbosch, Martin - 2011
This paper aims to shed light on the characteristics and particularly the determinants of credit-less recoveries. After … building a dataset and documenting some stylised facts of credit-less recoveries in emerging market economies, this paper uses … panel probit models to analyse key determinants of credit-less recoveries. Our main findings are the following. First, our …
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