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Destabilizing Effects of Exchange-Rate Escape Clauses
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1991
This paper studies the merits of policy rules with escape clauses, analyzing as an example fixed exchange-rate systems that allow member countries the freedom to realign in periods of stress. Motivating this example is the debate within the European Monetary System over how quickly to move from...
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Competitiveness, Realignment, and Speculation : The Role of Financial Markets
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1988
Current and planned measures liberalizing the external capital accounts of France and Italy call into question the continued viability of the policy of periodic exchange-rate realignment followed to date in the European Monetary System (EMS). This paper is intended as a first step in studying...
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Theoretical Issues Pertaining to Monetary Unions
McCallum, Bennett T. - 1999
fully operational. A second relevant body of theory is that pertaining to currency crises. Formal models clarify various … recently- developed fiscal theory of price level determination, which if valid would have major implications for monetary …-fiscal arrangements in currency unions. This theory does not contend that fiscal behavior drives an accommodative monetary authority, but …
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A Tale of Politically-Failing Single-Currency Area
Razin, Assaf - 2012
The global financial crisis which erupted in the United States instantaneously swept across Europe. Like the United States, the European Monetary Union (EMU) was ripe for a crash. It had its own real estate bubble, specifically in Ireland and Spain, indulged in excessive deficit spending,...
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Models of Currency Crises with Self-Fulfilling Features
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1995
The discomfort a government suffers from speculation against its currency determines the strategic incentives of speculators and the scope for multiple currency-market equilibria. After describing an illustrative model in which high unemployment may cause an exchange- rate crisis with...
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Do Debt Flows Crowd Out Equity Flows Or the Other Way Round?
Razin, Assaf - 2000
In the presence of asymmetric information, the stage at which financing decisions are made about investment projects in a small open economy is crucial for the composition of international capital inflows as well as for the efficiency of channeling savings into investment. This paper compares...
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Nominal Income Targeting in an Open-Economy Optimizing Model
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2000
conducting analysis in a macroeconomic model that is designed to respect both neoclassical theory and empirical regularities …
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Theoretical Analysis Regarding a Zero Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2000
This paper explores several issues concerning a possible zero lower bound (ZLB) including its theoretical rationale; the magnitude of effects of low sustained inflation on real interest rates; the validity of analyzing monetary policy in models with no monetary variables; and the dynamic...
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Excessive FDI Flows Under Asymmetric Information
Razin, Assaf - 1999
In Razin, Sadka and Yuen (1998, 1999a), we explored the policy implications of the home-bias in international portfolio investment as a result of asymmetric information problems in which domestic savers, being 'close' to the domestic market, have an informational advantage over foreign portfolio...
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Analysis of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism : Methodological Issues
McCallum, Bennett T. - 1999
This paper argues that, in studying the monetary policy transmission process, more emphasis should be given to the systematic portion of policy behavior and correspondingly less to random shocks basically because shocks account for a very small fraction of policy-instrument variability. Analysis...
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