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We use panel quantile regressions to study extreme (rather than average) movements in the distribution of the real effective exchange rate (REER) of small open economies. We document that global uncertainty (VIX) and global financial conditions (U.S. monetary policy) shocks have a strong impact...
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Over the past two decades, most emerging market economies witnessed two key developments. A marked process of financial integration with the rest of the world, arguably turning these economies more vulnerable to global financial shocks; and an improvement of macroeconomic fundamentals, helping...
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We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to income shocks arising from the Covid-19 pandemic: occupation in Cambodia, self-insurance mechanisms in Nepal, and financial leverage in Vietnam. Occupation and ex-ante income...
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multiplier effect), it quickly rises above pre-shock levels. The rebound in investment is facilitated by fiscal space, flexible … investment contractions on impact, but drive private investment to above pre-shock levels. Finally, we exploit firm … sector and in larger and less indebted firms, and to show that the long-run benefits to economic activity of the fiscal shock …
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model includes a financial accelerator--entrepreneurs are assumed to partially finance investment using domestic and foreign … importance of the financial accelerator in India and the optimality of monetary policy …
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We develop a model with diagnostic expectations (DE) and a financial accelerator (FA) that generates mutually … reinforcing shock amplification, especially in the case of demand shocks. However, supply shocks can be dampened via a debt … asset prices—our financial accelerator model with DE suggests that targeting house price growth may result in welfare gains …
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In recent years, recommendations for countries to unilaterally dollarize/eurorize have become common, particularly when the countries lack economic credibility. After exploring the characteristics of dollarizing/eurorizing economies, we look at the merits and costs of unilateral eurorization for...
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Empirical (employing the Blanchard-Perotti framework) and modeling (using a country-specific DSGE model) approaches are used to estimate fiscal multipliers by policy instrument for Bolivia, to evaluate possible adjustments in a fiscal consolidation strategy. Multipliers are also estimated using...
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We study the role of the exchange rate regime, reserve accumulation, and sterilization policies in the macroeconomics of aid surges. Absent sterilization, a peg allows for almost full aid absorption — an increase in the current account deficit net of aid—delivering the same effects...
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We study a wide range of hybrid inflation-targeting (IT) and managed exchange rate regimes, analyzing their implications for inflation, output and the exchange rate in the presence of various domestic and external shocks. To this end, we develop an open economy new-Keynesian model featuring...
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