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volatility risk, for dollar, euro and pound rates at a daily frequency, between October 1998 and August 2006. The measurement of … objective probability measure. Results show that especially between September 2001 and mid-2003 dollar implieds were embodying a … structure, more evident for dollar and euro rates than for pound rates. The volatility risk premium is strongly changing through …
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for a broad range of fixed income instruments such as government and nongovernment instruments in the US dollar and …
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While up to the late 1990s Japanese foreign exchange intervention was fully sterilized, Japanese monetary authorities left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous research on foreign exchange intervention, unsterilized...
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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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A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharp appreciation of the US dollar against … triggered a significant strengthening of the US dollar, rather than a weakening. Macroeconomic fundamentals and financial …. -- Financial crisis ; exchange rates ; global imbalances ; shocks ; United States ; US dollar ; transmission channels …
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This paper analyses the impact of the shift away from a US dollar focus of systemically important emerging market … economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … dollar exchange rate regimes remain pervasive and reserve compositions mostly kept secret, the identification strategy of the …
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There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...
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We analyze the interaction between credit and asset prices in the transmission of shocks to the real economy. We estimate a Markov switching VAR for the euro area and the US, including additionally GDP, CPI and a short-term interest rate. We find evidence for two distinct states in both regions....
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dollar ; euro ; German dominance hypothesis …This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tripolar and centred around the US dollar, the … euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China's "dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the renminbi …
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individual countries. The evolution of this aggregate indicator suggests that the US dollar has continuously dominated exchange …
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