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Following a scarcity of dollar funding available internationally to banks and financial institutions, in December 2007 … banks. These central banks had the capacity to use these swap facilities to provide dollar liquidity to institutions in … their jurisdictions. This paper presents the developments in the dollar swap facilities through the end of 2009. The …
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status of these roles. The U.S. dollar continues to be the dominant currency across various uses. Yet, such a role may change … over time. If this occurs, there could be consequences for seignorage returns, U.S. funding costs, the dollar's value, U …
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Facility. We provide new evidence on how the central bank swap lines and FIMA Repo Facility can reduce strains in global dollar … funding markets and U.S. Treasury markets during extreme stress events. These facilities are found to reduce strains in dollar …
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The effects of a Tobin tax on foreign exchange markets have long been disputed. We present an experiment with currency trading on two markets, where either none, one, or both markets are taxed. Our results confirm the hitherto undisputed issues: a tax reduces trading volume, shifts market share...
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Nowadays foreign exchange interventions occur in emerging market economies whereas empirical studies on interventions mainly refer to advanced economies. However, interventions in emerging markets are different from those in advanced economies: they occur regularly and central banks have...
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type and to base currency (i.e., Deutschemark versus US dollar). We appeal to an econometric interpretation of the results … US-Dollar). Die Autoren neigen zu einer ökonometrischen Interpretation der Ergebnisse, die das Vorhandensein von …
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In this paper we provide evidence for Evans and Lyons' (2005b) model of an information aggregation process in FX markets using a German bank's end-user order flow from 2002 to 2003. Though customer order flow is unambiguously the vehicle incorporating non-public information into exchange rates...
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Sterilized foreign exchange market interventions are commonly dismissed by economists as an ineffective policy instrument. Nevertheless many central banks operating under independently floating exchange rates regimes are often engaged in sales and purchases of foreign exchange in order to...
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Though unambiguously outperforming all other financial markets in terms of liquidity, foreign exchange trading is still performed in opaque and decentralized markets. In particular, the two-tier market structure consisting of a customer segment and an interdealer segment to which only market...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have become active investors on the financial markets. This working paper meets the increasing thirst for information on the investment activities of Sovereign Wealth Funds, their legal environment and the implications on German stock listed corporations. Thus, this...
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