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moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction at horizons of up to three months after G7 meetings, but not at …
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euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China's "dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the renminbi … dollar ; euro ; German dominance hypothesis …
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exchange rate stability constraints imposed by the obligatory participation in the ERM2 on the path to the euro. The modified … policy framework is based on targeting the differential between the domestic and the implicit euro area inflation forecasts …
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In this paper we propose an empirical model that considers theoretical facts on the relationship between real exchange rates and the net exports of the economy to supplement the interaction of a number of financial and economic factors with the stock market. We discuss the impact of exchange...
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No empirical evidence has yet emerged for the existence of a robust positive relationship between financial openness and economic growth. This paper argues that a key reason for the elusive evidence is the presence of a time-varying relationship between openness and growth over time: countries...
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We assess monetary convergence preceding the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) through Kalman filtering estimates of the risk premium of eleven forward exchange rates of European and non-European currencies. Since all participating currencies are in effect identical from...
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We add to the literature on the influence of the global financial cycle (GFC) and gyrations in capital flows. First, we build a new measure of the GFC based on a structural factor approach, which incorporates theoretical priors in its definition. This measure can also be decomposed in a...
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Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the...
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-border bank lending in US dollars, and particularly in euro, is highly concentrated in a small number of countries. The UK is … central in the international network of loans denominated in euro, although there are tentative signs that this role has … optimisation strategies. The empirical analysis suggests that euro-denominated loans face the "tyranny of distance", in line with …
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Bulgaria and Romania are neighbouring countries, which have always been rivals. Following the decision on EU enlargement to include Bulgaria and Romania (late 1999) and with membership negotiations already started (2004), the race between the two countries gained momentum and comparisons of...
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