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Foreign exchange, interest and the dynamics of public debt in Latin America

Schonerwald da Silva, Carlos E.; Vernengo, Matías - 2007

The relationship between the exchange rate and public debt is intermediated by two mechanisms. On the one hand, exchange rate devaluation implies higher payment on local currency over the debt denominated in foreign currency. On the other hand, the rise of public debt leads a perception of...

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Determinantes de la tasa interbancaria de préstamos en Argentina

Anastasi, Alejandra; Elosegui, Pedro; Sangiácomo, Máximo - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants of the interest rate of short-term unsecured loan inter-bank market (call) in Argentina. The results show that the heterogeneous nature of the entities, in terms of size and origin of ownership, impacts on the interest rate agreed. Other additional aspects,...

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Tacit collusion under interest rate fluctuations

Dal Bó, Pedro - 2002

In contrast to the existing literature on repeated games that assumes a Þxed discount factor, I study an environment in which it is more realistic to assume a ßuctuating discount factor. In a repeated oligopoly, as the interest rate changes, so too does the degree to which Þrms discount the...

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In- and out-of-sample specification analysis of spot rate models: Further evidence for the period 1982-2008

Cai, Lili; Swanson, Norman R. - 2011

We review and construct consistent in-sample specification and out-of-sample model selection tests on conditional distributions and predictive densities associated with continuous multifactor (possibly with jumps) and (non)linear discrete models of the short term interest rate. The results of...

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Why are policy real interest rates so high in Brazil? An analysis of the determinants of the Central Bank of Brazil's real interest rate

Balliester Reis, Thereza - 2016

This paper discusses the reasons for Brazil.s high policy real interest rates by considering two opposing views, the … level of the policy rate in Brazil. The aim of this study is to assess whether the proposed arguments can be supported when … might be political causes of the high real interest rates in Brazil such as a politically influential rentier class. …

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Japanese growth and stagnation: A Keynesian perspective

Nakatani, Takeshi; Skott, Peter - 2006

This paper uses a modi.ed Harrodian model to understand both the long period of rapid Japanese growth and the recent period of stagnation. The model has multiple steady-growth solutions when the labour supply is highly elastic, and government intervention, we argue, took the Japanese economy...

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Surfing the waves of globalization: Asia and financial globalization in the context of the trilemma

Aizenman, Joshua; Chinn, Menzie D.; Ito, Hiro - 2011

Using the trilemma indexes developed by Aizenman et al. (2010) that measure the extent of achievement in each of the three policy goals in the trilemma - monetary independence, exchange rate stability, and financial openness - we examine how policy configurations affect macroeconomic...

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Foreign deficit and economic policy: The case of Mexico

Huerta González, Arturo - 2024

The article analyzes Mexico under globalization, particularly on the free mobility of capital. It argues that globalization has detrimentally impacted the productive and external sectors, causing the economy to become excessively reliant on volatile capital inflows from abroad. The Mexican...

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Great moderations and US interest rates: Unconditional evidence

Nason, James M.; Smith, Gregor W. - 2008

The Great Moderation refers to the fall in U.S. output growth volatility in the mid-1980s. At the same time, the United States experienced a moderation in inflation and lower average inflation. Using annual data since 1890, we find that an earlier 1946 moderation in output and consumption growth...

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Multilateral loans and interest rates: Further evidence on the seniority conundrum

Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2016

During Europe's sovereign-debt crisis, interest rate spreads have been highly correlated with the share of multilateral loans that were considered senior to private markets. As both variables are potentially endogenous, we follow two different approaches to analyze the direction of causality....

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