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recently available World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to study the properties of the new measures of the REER for 40 countries …
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Risk Response Index, which reflects the country-specific sensitivity of capital flow pressures to measures of global risk … aversion. For a large sample of countries over time, we demonstrate time variation in the effects of global risk on exchange … market pressures, the evolving importance of the global factor across types of countries, and the changing risk-on or risk …
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A puzzle in empirical international finance is the difficulty in finding a large and negative effect of exchange rate volatility on international trade. A common explanation is the availability of hedging instruments. This paper examines the empirical validity of this explanation using data on...
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The paper studies the effect of the market's perceived exchange rate volatility on bid-ask spreads. The anticipated volatility is extracted from currency options data. An increase in the perceived volatility is found to widen bid-ask spreads. The direction of the effect is consistent with an...
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of a 3-dimensional panel of prices of 95 very disaggregated goods (e.g., light bulbs) in 83 cities from around the world …
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The risk sensitivity of international capital flow pressures is explored using a new Exchange Market Pressure index … masked by foreign exchange interventions and policy rate adjustments. The sensitivity of capital flow pressures to risk … between normal time and extreme stress events. Across countries, risk sensitivities and safe haven status are associated with …
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