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Reserves and Baskets
Bordo, Michael D. - 2011
We discuss three well known plans that were offered in the twentieth century to provide an artificial replacement for gold and key currencies as international reserves: Keynes' Bancor, the SDR and the Ecu( predecessor to the euro).The latter two of these reserve substitutes were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119771
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Dollar Illiquidity and Central Bank Swap Arrangements During the Global Financial Crisis
Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2011
While the global financial crisis was centered in the United States, it led to a surprising appreciation in the dollar, suggesting global dollar illiquidity. In response, the Federal Reserve partnered with other central banks to inject dollars into the international financial system. Empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121027
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Optimal Holdings of International Reserves : Self-Insurance Against Sudden Stop
Calvo, Guillermo A. - 2012
This paper addresses the issue of the optimal stock of international reserves in terms of a statistical model in which reserves affect both the probability of a Sudden Stop-as well as associated output costs-by reducing the balance-sheet effects of liability dollarization. Optimal reserves are...
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The Dollar and its Discontents
Jeanne, Olivier - 2012
Has the US dollar delivered the benefits that the rest of the world is expecting from its holdings of international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104992
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When Did the Dollar Overtake Sterling as the Leading International Currency? Evidence from the Bond Markets
Chitu, Livia - 2012
This paper offers new evidence on the emergence of the dollar as the leading international currency, focusing on its role as currency of denomination in global bond markets. We show that the dollar overtook sterling much earlier than commonly supposed, as early as in 1929. Financial market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106301
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The Future of International Liquidity and the Role of China
Taylor, Alan M. - 2013
and its possible ascension to reserve currency status. In an unstable and financially integrated world, governments …' precautionary demand for reserve assets is likely to increase. But the world then risks a third crisis of the global reserve system …, another re-run of the Triffin paradox, with an ever-growing emerging-world insurance demand loaded onto a small group of ever …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087068
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The Financial Crisis and Sizable International Reserves Depletion : From 'Fear of Floating' to the 'Fear of Losing International Reserves'?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
In this paper we study the degree to which Emerging Markets (EMs) adjusted to the global liquidity crisis by drawing down their international reserves (IR). Overall, we find a mixed and complex picture. Intriguingly, only about half of the EMs depleted their IR as part of the adjustment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150740
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A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves, Net Foreign Assets, or Sovereign Wealth Funds
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2010
We model the motives for residents of a country to hold foreign assets, including the precautionary motive that has been omitted from much previous literature as intractable. Our model captures many of the principal insights from the existing specialized literature on the precautionary motive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151293
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The Real Exchange Rate, Mercantilism and the Learning by Doing Externality
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
This paper examines the degree to which the learning by doing externality [LBD] calls for an undervalued exchange rate, a policy suggested by recent empirical studies which concluded that mildly undervalued real exchange rate may enhance growth. We obtain mixed results. For an economy where LBD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772382
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Excess Reserves in the Great Depression
Wilcox, James A. - 2008
This article assesses the extent to which government-administered financial shocks and lower interest rates can account for the massive accumulation of bank excess reserves in the Great Depression. Both factors are shown to be statistically significant. Financial shocks did exert astatistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774837