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Catching-up and inflation in transition economies: the Balassa-Samuelson effect revisited
Mihaljek, Dubravko; Klau, Marc - Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich <Basel> - 2008
are clearly present and explain around 24% of inflation differentials vis-à-vis the euro area (about 1.2 percentage points … total domestic inflation... …
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Price convergence in the EMU?Evidence from micro data
Fischer, Christoph - Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum <Frankfurt, Main> - 2009
The establishment of European monetary union (EMU) was widely expected to causeprice convergence among member states. In an investigation of this claim, the presentstudy avoids problems of comparability and representativeness by using an extremelydetailed and comprehensive scanner database on...
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China's evolving external wealth and rising creditor position
Ma, Guonan; Zhou, Haiwen - Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich <Basel> - 2009
China’s emergence as a major player in world trade is well known, but its rising role in global finance is perhaps underappreciated. China is the second largest creditor in the world today, with a net creditor position of exceeding 30% of GDP in 2007. In this paper, we test the importance of...
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The Influence of Information Costs on the Integration of Financial Markets : Northern Europe, 1350-1560
Volckart, Oliver - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin>
In this paper, the influence of information costs on the integration of Northern European financial markets between ca. 1350 and 1560 is explored. The approach is based on splitting information costs into their constitutive components and on measuring one of these, i.e. the costs of transmitting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005854705
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATIONAND REAL EXCHANGE RATE LONG-RUNDYNAMICS IN EMERGING COUNTRIES:SOME PANEL EVIDENCE
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, … - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financialintegration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to threedifferent geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
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In What Sense Can Intervention ReduceExchange Rate Volatility?
Bleaney, Michael F.; Francisco, Manuela - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008
Can pegging reduce real as well as nominal, and multilateral as well as bilateralexchange rate volatility? We investigate this issue using monthly data for 139countries from January 1990 to June 2006...
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What Makes Currencies Volatile?An Empirical Investigation
Bleaney, Michael F.; Francisco, Manuela - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008
. Volatility decreases with openness tointernational trade and per capita GDP, and increases with inflation, particularlyunder a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868573
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THE AFTERMATH OF A CURRENCY COLLAPSE:HOW DIFFERENT ARE EMERGING MARKETS?
Bleaney, Michael F. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2002
In currency crises, unlike in orderly devaluations, the financial markets dominateevents. It is shown that currency collapses (crises followed by depreciations) have hada much greater adverse impact in emerging markets (defined as relatively highincomedeveloping countries exposed to...
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FINANCIAL FRAGILITY AND CURRENCYCRISES
Bleaney, Michael F. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
The standard model of currency crises is amended to distinguish betweenunemployment aversion and financial fragility. Fragility is assumed to affect theauthorities’ sensitivity to a combination of high real interest rates and unemployment.An increase in fragility expands the region of...
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Testing Commitment Models of Monetary Policy:Evidence from OECD Economies
Doyle, Matthew; Falk, Barry - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
Inflation rates in a number of OECD follow a common trend over the past four decades: inflation starts out low in the … in the behavior of trend inflation suggests that any explanation of long run inflation trends ought to apply across OECD …-varying NAIRU, can explain long run trends in U.S. inflation. In this paper we show that this result cannot serve as an explanation …
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