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data of six emerging inflation targeting economies (Turkey, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Chile, Poland, and South Africa …
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. This paper uses a friction model to estimate intervention reaction functions and the associated marginal effects for Brazil …
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the case of Brazil. The IT monetary policy regime has been adopted by a significant number of countries. While the focus … of this paper is on Brazil, which began inflation targeting in 1999, we also examine the experience of other countries … compare the experience of Brazil with that of non-IT countries, and ask the question of whether adopting IT makes a difference …
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This paper discusses the global financial crisis of 2008/9 in thirteen countries, the ten new EU members that previously were communist and the three countries of Western former Soviet Union. Their problems were excessive current account deficits and private foreign debt, currency mismatches,...
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By examining the reaction functions of the Central Banks of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru (LATAM-5) over …
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Unlike common wisdom, sterilized FX purchases under inflation targeting, i.e., those that keep the interest rate at the level targeted by the central bank, generally increase aggregate demand. We resort to a simple model with a credit channel to argue that FX purchases, by funding bank credit,...
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Ist Südostasien anders? Dieser Frage geht Rainer Schweickert in der Kieler Studie 306 nach. Seine Analyse der Leistungsbilanzen, ihrer Teilkomponenten und ihrer Determinanten seit Anfang der 70er Jahre sowie der krisenhaften Entwicklungen in den 90er Jahren weist nach, dass diese Vermutung in...
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This study investigates volatility spillovers between two stock markets, Turkish and Brazilian, located in different regions of the world. Using a misspecification robust causality-in-variance test, we found strong evidence supporting volatility spillovers from Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) to...
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This paper discusses the role of foreign exchange interventions in the inflation-targeting regime, focusing on the Czech experience since 1998. It concludes that the case for foreign exchange interventions is not clear in an inflation targeting regime both from the theoretical and empirical...
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Given buoyant capital inflows and managed exchange rates the majority of emerging market central banks have continued to accumulate massive foreign reserves. If left unsterilized, the liquidity expansion can threaten domestic macroeconomic stability. To contain domestic inflation these central...
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