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This paper examines how exchange rate volatility and Korean banks' foreign exchange liquidity mismatches interacted …
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nominal exchange rate volatility are investigated for 48 countries. Estimation of panel data models indicates that nominal … exchange rate volatility decreases following dissemination of reserves template data while the effects of indebtedness and … reserve adequacy on volatility exhibit statistically significant changes …
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This paper studies the role of an increase in foreign exchange reserves in reducing currency volatility for emerging … introduced in the regressions to account for other factors affecting exchange rate volatility (monetary and external indicators … exchange rate regime, since the regime can affect both the level of reserves and exchange rate volatility. The results provide …
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This paper presents a new measure of capital flow pressures in the form of a recast Exchange Market Pressure index. The measure captures pressures that materialize in actual international capital flows as well as pressures that result in exchange rate adjustments. The formulation is...
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We study the effect of foreign exchange intervention on the exchange rate relying on an instrumental-variables panel approach. We find robust evidence that intervention affects the level of the exchange rate in an economically meaningful way. A purchase of foreign currency of 1 percentage point...
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This paper characterizes exchange market pressure as a nonlinear Markov-switching phenomenon, and examines its dynamics in response to money growth and inflation over three regimes. The empirical results identify episodes of exchange market pressure in the Kyrgyz Republic and confirm the...
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Data published in IMF country staff reports and International Financial Statistics (IFS) may differ for identical variables and, at times, users may be unaware of the reasons for these differences and lack the information needed to permit reconciliation. Such discrepancies stem principally from...
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This paper tests whether reserve portfolios respond to exchange rate changes with a portfolio rebalancing strategy, which requires the purchase of depreciating currencies and sale of appreciating ones. The paper finds empirical support for the strategy, in particular that dollar...
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Empirical analysis does not suggest that reserves are ""too high"" in the majority of Asian countries, though China may be a special case. Much of the reserve increase in Asia can be explained by an optimal insurance model under which reserves provide a steady source of liquidity to cushion the...
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This paper provides indirect tests of the hypothesis that exchange rate movements may be largely coterminus with changes in preferences for holding claims on different countries. It is argued that changes in country preferences will be reflected systematically in the price of gold and, hence,...
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