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This paper re-examines empirical exchange rate puzzles by focusing on three OECD economies (Australia, Canada, and New … Zealand) where primary commodities constitute a significant share of their exports. For Australia and New Zealand especially …
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interest rates to policy announcements—on the exchange rate in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the 1990s. The main … results are that (1) on average, a 100 basis point contractionary shock will appreciate the exchange rate by 2-3 percent on …
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The paper finds that, given New Zealand’s conservative approach in implementing the Basel II framework, New Zealand banks’ headline capital ratios underestimate their capital strength. A comparison with Canadian, UK and Australian banks highlights the impact of New Zealand’s more...
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In this paper, we analyze how lack of credibility and transparency of monetary and fiscal policies undermines the effectiveness of macroeconomic policies to isolate the economy from commodity price fluctuations. We develop a general equilibrium model for a commodity-exporting economy where macro...
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Labor markets in Australia have adjusted smoothly to significant declines in commodity prices with little increase in …
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for Australia and New Zealand. The baseline results using data and mediumterm projections available as of October 2008 …
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. The relationship between these variables is theoretically ambiguous: an adverse transitory terms of trade shock can either …
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Chile, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and five European countries. Overall, Chile''s pass-through does …
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This paper analyzes the factors driving house prices in Australia from a cross-country perspective using several … approaches. It uses a cointegration technique to estimate the long-run equilibrium house prices in Australia, New Zealand, and … Canada and assesses the extent of a possible disequilibrium. It also presents an event analysis to shed some light on the …
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Under a flexible inflation targeting regime, should policymakers avoid any reaction to movements in the foreign exchange market? Using data for six advanced open economies explicitly targeting inflation, the paper examines empirically whether real exchange rate disequilibria systematically...
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