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Do China and Oil Exporters Influence Major Currency Configurations?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2015
economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749953
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China's dominance hypothesis and the emergence of a tri-polar global currency system
Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2011
euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605438
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How successful is the G7 in managing exchange rates?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2008
moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction at horizons of up to three months after G7 meetings, but not at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604998
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317566
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315352
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Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Mehl, Arnaud - 2008
economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605019
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How Successful is the G7 in Managing Exchange Rates?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2015
moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction at horizons of up to three months after G7 meetings, but not at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750085