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left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous … volatility at the turn of the millennium when Japanese foreign exchange intervention started to remain 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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rates at a given future date triggers a reduction in exchange rate volatility during the interim period. Using a Markov …-switching GARCH model this paper estimates the volatility processes of four EMU exchange rate returns vis-?-vis the German mark using …
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Bank of Japan (BoJ) and exchange rate volatility. We use official intervention data for the period 1993-2000 that were … released only recently by the BoJ and find that the interventions of the BoJ increased the volatility of the yen/U.S. dollar … press, were positively correlated with exchange rate volatility. …
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, and yen separately have on movements of Asian currencies. Contrary to recent evidence based on daily data, we found … than by the yuan or the yen individually within the sample period we used. To the extent that exchange rates in the region …
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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 is already the dominant currency in Asia,...
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We argue that criticism concerning the Chinese dollar peg is misplaced as no predictable link exists between the exchange rate and the trade balance of an international creditor economy. The stable nominal yuan/dollar rate is argued to have stabilized Chinese, East Asian and global growth....
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In this paper we investigate the effects of central bank interventions (CBI) in a noise trading model with chartists and fundamentalists. We first estimate a model in which chartists extrapolate past returns and fundamentalists forecast a mean reverting dynamics of the exchange rate towards a...
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Regional monetary and financial cooperation in Asia has been discussed for years. To move towards a coordinated exchange rate policy, Ogawa and Shimizu (2005) proposed both an Asian Monetary Unit (AMU), which is a common currency basket computed as a weighted average of the thirteen ASEAN+3...
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China or Japan, has no predictable effect on its trade surplus. Currency appreciation by the creditor country will slow its …-growth and low-growth economies, as between Japan and the U.S. from in 1950 to 1971 and China and the U.S. from 1994 to 2005 …
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