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The paper documents the use of foreign exchange intervention (FXI) across countries and monetary regimes, with special attention to its use under inflation targeting (IT). We find significant differences between advanced and emerging market economies, with the former group conducting FXI...
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, institutional, political and social underpinnings to uncover the 'missing' determinants of exchange rate volatility over time and … volatility, especially in emerging market economies. After controlling for standard macroeconomic factors, we find that the 'soft … volatility across countries …
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This paper examines how exchange rate volatility and Korean banks' foreign exchange liquidity mismatches interacted …
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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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We examine the relationship between South African Rand and gold price volatility using monthly data for the period 1980 … volatility but the causality runs the other way around for the post-liberalization period. These findings suggest that gold price … volatility plays a key role in explaining both the excessive exchange rate volatility and current disproportionate share of …
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-term volatility, particularly vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar. The degree of smoothing declined noticeably after the Asian Financial Crisis …
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This paper investigates possible drivers of volatility in the South African rand since the onset of the global … financial crisis. We assess the role played by local and international economic surprises, commodity price volatility, global … market risk perceptions, and local political uncertainty. As a measure of rand volatility, the study uses a market …
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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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Does the South African rand's relatively large volatility affect inflation? To shed some light on this question, a … standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …. Estimated results suggest that higher exchange rate volatility tends to increase core inflation but to a relatively limited …
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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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