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investment and foreign direct investment (FDI). Producers may diversify internationally in order to increase the flexibility of …. It is shown that a fixed exchange rate regime is more conducive to FDI relative to a flexible exchange rate, and this … positive) correlation between exchange rate volatility and the level of investment …
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Foreign exchange intervention (FXI) is a highly debated topic. Yet, comprehensive and comparable data on FXI is hard to find. This paper provides a new dataset of FXI covering a large number of countries over the period 2000-20 at monthly and quarterly frequencies. It includes publicly available...
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Estimation and simulation of sustainable real exchange rates in some of the new EU accession countries point to …
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The Great Recession affected export and import patterns in our sample countries, and these changes, coupled with a more volatile external environment, have profound impact on our estimates of real exchange rate misalignments and projections of sustainable real exchange rates. We find that real...
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located far away. Firm optimisation then leads less productive firms to self-select themselves for FDI. We test this …
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volatility in determining a firm's debt currency composition, among other channels. Furthermore, the effect of exchange rate … volatility becomes statistically insignificant beyond an estimated threshold credit-to-GDP ratio of 100 percent …
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standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …Does the South African rand's relatively large volatility affect inflation? To shed some light on this question, a …. Estimated results suggest that higher exchange rate volatility tends to increase core inflation but to a relatively limited …
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This paper investigates the consequences of exchange rate volatility on the variability of export prices and quantities …
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We examine the mean-reverting properties of real exchange rates, by comparing the unit root properties of a group of international real exchange rates with two groups of intra-national real exchange rates. Strikingly, we find that while the international real rates taken as a group appear...
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This paper presents a method to test the volatility predictions of the textbook asset-pricing exchange rate model … builds on existing tests of excess volatility in asset prices, combining them with a procedure that extracts unobservable … 1984 and find broad evidence of excess exchange rate volatility with respect to the predictions of the canonical asset …
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