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, which refers to price stability and high employment, and in which the exchange rate and other international variables matter … heavily shaped by the distinctive circumstances of the last three decades, when the influence of international considerations … on Fed policy has been limited. I discuss how the Federal Reserve paid significant attention to international …
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We show that quot;commodity currencyquot; exchange rates have remarkably robust power in predicting global commodity prices, both in-sample and out-of-sample, and against a variety of alternative benchmarks. This result is of particular interest to policymakers, given the lack of deep forward...
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establishment of currency unions, the monetizing of recently acquired colonies, preferential trade arrangements, and customs unions …
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A central assumption of open economy macro models with nominal rigidities relates to the currency in which goods are … priced, whether there is so-called producer currency pricing or local currency pricing. This has important implications for … exchange rate pass-through and optimal exchange rate policy. We show, using novel transaction level information on currency and …
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The case for monetary simplification and unification has been made since the middle of the nineteenth century. It rests on four principal arguments ;reduced transaction costs; establishing credibility; preventing bad policy in other states; political integration via money. In this paper we argue...
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Over time, there has been a tendency for political jurisdictions and residents to converge on a single currency … uniform currency, insofar as it is free of counterparty and liquidity risk, facilitates economic activity. But will digital … maintain their stability is doubtful. The one unit that can clearly meet these challenges is central bank digital currency. But …
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for international investors. Policies that induce a country's currency to appreciate when the marginal utility of inter …We develop a novel, risk-based theory of the effects of currency manipulation. In our model, the choice of exchange … rate regime allows policymakers to make their currency, and by extension, the firms in their country, a safer investment …
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attempted to manage a successful common currency when sub-national political entities were allowed to have separate currencies … and run independent monetary policies. Congress created a common currency that was too large to use in ordinary … transactions. Congress hoped this currency would be held for post-war redemption and would not circulate as money during the war …
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quality” to the international currency. However, in the Euro crisis, that of the Sterling pound became equally low, while the … deviations across the European currencies in the two crises. Currency-specific money market risk was critical in explaining the …
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A bona fide currency functions as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account, but bitcoin largely … investment than a currency …
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