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There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...
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We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on the pattern of currency … invoicing. Our approach uses a compositional multinomial logit model, in which currency choice is explained by both currency … countries for the 1996-2006 period. We find that eurozone countries have substantially increased their share of home currency …
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economy. The measure of a currency's global role is based on the size and stage of development of the underlying economy, as … currency. The paper applies the concept to 22 currencies of advanced and emerging economies. The results confirm the well … measure in detail, arguing that in view of financial globalisation, an indicator based on currency shares in the international …
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The paper assesses the extent to which the Group of Seven (G7) has been successful in its management of major currencies since the 1970s. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds evidence that the G7 has been overall effective in moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction...
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have experienced substantially larger currency depreciations during the crisis overall, and to US shocks in particular. …
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is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting a large influence on exchange rate and monetary policies in the region … the RMB has become a key driver of currency movements in emerging Asia since the mid-2000s, and even more so since the … international monetary system is already tri-polar. However, we also find that China’s currency movements are to some extent …
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This paper takes a financial market perspective in examining the relationship between oil prices, the US dollar and asset prices, and it exploits the heteroskedasticity for the identification of causality in a multifactor model. It finds a bidirectional causality between the US dollar and oil...
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is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting a large influence on exchange rate and monetary policies in the region … the RMB has become a key driver of currency movements in emerging Asia since the mid-2000s, and even more so since the … international monetary system is already tri-polar. However, we also find that China's currency movements are to some extent …
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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...
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/euroisation is found to have been transmitted through the main channels traditionally highlighted in the literature, i.e. currency …
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