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The bulk of recent literature on foreign exchange interventions has overlooked the potential interdependencies that may exist between these operations and the conduct of monetary policy. This is the case even under inflation targeting and especially in emerging-market economies, because central...
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This paper aims to outline the basis for a development strategy for Brazil. Therefore, it starts from some basic premises. First, there will be no development without social mobilization. Second, development is a planning result, in which the Government plays a key role. Besides, a development...
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This paper contributes to the microstructure approach to exchange rates in two ways. Using a unique dataset that covers 100% of the Brazilian FX financial market, we find a strict link between FX currency flows and the Balance of Payments. Second, we develop an identification strategy that...
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This paper analyses one of the main pillars of Brazil.s newly found economic resilience: a maturing FX market providing support to its managed .oating exchange rate regime. I develop a microstrucure model suitable to describe the Brazilian FX market, an emerging economy frequently subjected to...
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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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This paper investigates the intraday effects of unannounced foreign exchange intervention on bid-ask exchange rate spreads using official intraday intervention data provided by the Danish central bank. Our starting point is a simple theoretical model of the bid-ask spread which we use to...
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Mit der Freigabe des Wechselkurses für den Peso hat Argentinien einen grundlegenden Kurswechsel in seiner Währungspolitik vollzogen. Die feste Bindung der Währung an den US-Dollar über ein "Currency Board" hatte das Land in eine tiefe Krise geführt. Zwar war es gelungen, die dramatischen...
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Mit dem Ausscheren aus dem Wechselkurssystem des Europäischen Währungssystems (EWS) im Jahre 1992 und der sich anschließenden Abwertung des Pfund Sterling um 20 % ist Großbritannien einen eigenen Weg bei der Integration in den europäischen Markt gegangen. Nicht zuletzt aus grundsätzlichen...
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Fünf Jahre nach der Asienkrise weisen Indonesien, Südkorea und Thailand wieder hohe Zuwachsraten für die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion aus. Sie haben eine Neuausrichtung ihrer Währungspolitik vorgenommen und die Reform des Bankensektors - wenngleich in unterschiedlichem Maße -...
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