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One Money, One Market : Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade

Rose, Andrew K. - 1999

A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international … trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries … same currency. I find a large positive effect of a currency union on international trade, and a small negative effect of …

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Staying Afloat When the Wind Shifts : External Factors and Emerging-Market Banking Crises

Eichengreen, Barry - 1998

We analyze banking crises using a panel of macroeconomic and financial data for more than one hundred developing countries from 1975 through 1992. We find that banking crises in emerging markets are strongly associated with adverse external conditions. In particular Northern interest rates are...

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Currency Crashes in Emerging Markets : Empirical Indicators

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1996

We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971 through 1992 to characterize currency crashes. We define a currency crash as a large change of the nominal exchange rate that is also a substantial increase in the rate of change of nominal depreciation. We examine...

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