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This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long horizons. At horizons of several...
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. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … pricing models. We use a synthetic Euro excess return along with a Yen excess return to assess country equity sensitivities to …
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Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms … remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro's effect on financial integration using data on bilateral … euro's impact on financial integration is primarily driven by eliminating the currency risk. Legislative …
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International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find...
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We estimate the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on CES import price indices, focusing on the implications of … U.K. import price indices by raising the prices of existing products and by reducing product variety from the E.U. We … find evidence that the risk of higher import protection from the 2016 referendum increased current import price indices by …
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, euro area and UK data points to a substantial deviation from that invariance prediction: expectations of interest rate …
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in the United Kingdom and the euro area, have increased our ability to evaluate the effects that joining monetary union ….K. regime (CPI inflation targeting combined with a floating exchange rate), and adoption of the euro, as monetary policy options … stability under monetary union also diminishes if imports from the euro area are modeled as primarily intermediates instead of …
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The paper develops a simple stochastic new open economy macroeconomic model based on sticky nominal wages. Explicit solution of the wage-setting problem under uncertainty allows one to analyze the effects of the monetary regime on welfare, expected output, and the expected terms of trade....
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Foreign currency derivative markets are among the largest in the world, yet their role in emerging markets is relatively understudied. We study firms' currency risk exposure and their hedging choices by employing a unique dataset covering the universe of FX derivatives transactions in Chile...
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Investments in international fixed income securities are exposed to significant currency risks. We collect novel data on mutual fund currency derivatives and document that around 90% of U.S. international fixed income funds use currency forwards to manage their foreign exchange exposure. Funds'...
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