To understand the growth effects of currency undervaluation we estimate its impact on the different components of GDP. We find that, for developing countries, undervaluation does not affect the tradable sector, but does lead to greater domestic savings and investment, as well as employment.

In an influential work by Diebold and Inoue (2001), the Markov switching model was shown to exhibit long memory, in terms of the behavior of the second moments of partial sums. The relationship between the Markov switching model and long memory is reexamined here. Common estimators of the long...

This paper shows that large labour unions reduce the incentive for uncoordinated monetary policies to improve the terms of trade. This finding implies that concentrated labour markets significantly affect the optimal policy prescription in an open economy.

Through a finite-lived dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model comprising bubbly capital with fixed supply, one-period gestation lag, and a cash-in-advance constraint, we show that a money-accommodated but not price-accommodated technological shock can trigger excessive movement in...

The coexistence puzzle is explained via an interaction between intermediary cost and uncertainty with regards to consumption trade. If a trade opportunity as a buyer is more likely to arise, ex-ante net return on bond at the margin would be negative up to a certain amount of transactions and,...

In this paper, we analyze the volume of Euro banknotes issued by Germany and circulating in other Euro area countries as well as outside the Euro area with a banknotes’ age model. Our approach suggests that about 60% of banknotes, the equivalent of around € 225 billion, is held abroad.

This paper argues that fixed exchange rate regimes are preferred by the international sector only if they are adopted in economies endowed with anti-inflationary policy-making institutions (i.e., independent central banks). Cross-national firm-level data gives strong support to this claim.

We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations on sectoral export performance across 91 countries (1980–1997). The increased availability of external finance has boosted trade of industries that intensively use relationship-specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries...

The spreading of the 2007–09 global financial crisis has highlighted the need to increase the resilience of the financial sector to contagion shocks. Debt financed by foreign banks has been found to increase the financial fragility of the borrowing country in situations of financial contagion,...

Using formal statistical tests, we detect (i) significant volatility increases for various types of capital flows for a period of changes in business cycle comovement among the G7 countries, and (ii) mixed evidence of changes in covariances and correlations with a set of macroeconomic variables.