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This paper examines how exchange rate volatility and Korean banks' foreign exchange liquidity mismatches interacted …
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During 2001-07, increases in mature market volatility were associated with declines in forex returns for East Asian … increase in mature market equity volatility generated an exchange rate depreciation of up to ½ percent. This sensitivity rose …
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. METHODOLOGY AND DATA -- III. VOLATILITY DYNAMICS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN …
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This paper examines the impact of Dollar exchange rate volatility on firm productivity in Emerging Markets economies … volatility reduces firm productivity growth. Exploring channels, its finds that the results are driven by countries with low … impact on firm productivty. Further, exploiting firm level data, the paper shows that dollar exchange rate volatility …
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This paper surveys the evidence on the effectiveness of monetary transmission in low-income countries. It is hard to come away from this review with much confidence in the strength of monetary transmission in such countries. We distinguish between the ""facts on the ground"" and ""methodological...
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We present empirical evidence that the Thai baht's value is driven in part by investors' cross-border equity portfolio rebalancing decisions. Our results are based on comprehensive datasets of FX and stock market transactions undertaken by nonresident investors in Thailand in 2005 and 2006....
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We demonstrate empirically that not all capital flows influence exchange rates equally: Capital flows induced by foreign investors' stock market transactions have both an economically significant and a permanent impact on exchange rates, whereas capital flows induced by foreign investors'...
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The paper considers the determinants of exchange rate movements among sub-Saharan countries that have flexible exchange rate regimes. The determinants are based on the law of one price and interest parity conditions. Results indicate that the exchange rates have responded significantly to...
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This paper uses three methods to assess movements of real exchange rates in the ECCU over time. First, the purchasing power parity hypothesis is tested and then used to provide a benchmark for equilibrium real exchange rates in the region. Second, a fundamentals-based equilibrium real exchange...
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