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International exchange rate systems: Where do we stand?
Siebert, Horst - 2006
This paper analyzes institutional arrangements for exchange rate systems and reviews what we know. It looks at the foreign exchange market, different balance of payment situations in which countries find themselves and the necessary exchange rate adjustments. It studies the options that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273093
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Coping with disasters: Two centuries of international official lending
Horn, Sebastian; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2020
Official (government-to-government) lending is much larger than commonly known, often surpassing total private cross-border capital flows, especially during disasters such as wars, financial crises and natural catastrophes. We assemble the first comprehensive long-run dataset of official...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234816
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Die Bedeutung monetärer Größen für die deutsche Wachstumsschwäche 1995 -2005
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils; Scheide, Joachim - 2009
exchange rate did have almost no dampening effects on growth. On the contrary, the introduction of the euro and the single … monetary policy for the euro area seems to have contributed significantly to the low trend growth rate in Germany between 1999 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263552
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Sources of Euro Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: What Is Behind the Euro Weakness in 1999-2000?
Gottschalk, Jan; Döpke, Jörg; Kamps, Christophe - 2001
This paper analyzes the factors underlying the weakness of the euro. For this purpose, the framework advocated by … sample from 1980 to 2000. However, historical decompositions reveal that fluctuations since the introduction of the euro in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260459
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The dynamic impact of FX interventions on financial markets
Menkhoff, Lukas; Rieth, Malte; Stöhr, Tobias - 2020
Evidence on the effectiveness of FX interventions is either limited to short horizons or hampered by debatable identification. We address these limitations by identifying a structural vector autoregressive model for the daily frequency with an external instrument. Generally, we find, for freely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180926
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Foreign exchange intervention: A new database
Fratzscher, Marcel; Heidland, Tobias; Menkhoff, Lukas; … - 2020
We construct a novel database of monthly foreign exchange interventions for 49 countries over up to 22 years. We build on a text classification approach that extracts information about interventions from news articles and calibrate our procedure to data about actual interventions. Our new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315605
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The Accuracy of Press Reports Regarding the Foreign Exchange Interventions of the Bank of Japan
Frenkel, Michael; Pierdzioch, Christian; Stadtmann, Georg - 2002
This paper presents evidence on the accuracy of press reports regarding the foreign exchange market interventions conducted by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) between January 1995 and December 1999. We find that the reports of interventions in the financial press are a relatively inaccurate indicator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260509
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The effectiveness of the interventions of the Swiss National Bank: an event-study analysis
Pierdzioch, Christian; Stadtmann, Georg - 2003
We use the event-study methodology to analyze the effectiveness of the foreign exchange market interventions conducted by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) during the period from 1986 through 1995. We find some evidence that the interventions of the SNB had an impact on exchange rate dynamics. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260620
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The Effects of Japanese Foreign Exchange Market Interventions on the Yen/U.S. Dollar Exchange Rate Volatility
Frenkel, Michael; Pierdzioch, Christian; Stadtmann, Georg - 2003
Previous studies have mainly used reports in the financial press to analyze the link between the interventions of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and exchange rate volatility. We use official intervention data for the period 1993-2000 that were released only recently by the BoJ and find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260629
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The euro's trade effect under cross-sectional heterogeneity and stochastic resistance
Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - 2010
This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs …, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which …, aggregate exports within the euro area increase between 2000 and 2002 by 15 to 25 percent compared with aggregate exports …
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