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Financial openness and growth
Fratzscher, Marcel; Bussiere, Matthieu - 2004
No empirical evidence has yet emerged for the existence of a robust positive relationship between financial openness and economic growth. This paper argues that a key reason for the elusive evidence is the presence of a time-varying relationship between openness and growth over time: countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009639402
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Chronicle of currency collapses
Bussière, Matthieu; Saxena, Sweta C.; Tovar, Camilo E. - 2010
The impact of currency collapses (i.e. large nominal depreciations or devaluations) on real output remains unsettled in the empirical macroeconomic literature. This paper provides new empirical evidence on this relationship using a dataset for 108 emerging and developing economies for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640314
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Fiscal policy and growth
Afonso, António; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kolerus, Christina - 2010
In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640323
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Do financial market variables show (symmetric) indicator properties relative to exchange rate returns?
Castrén, Olli - 2004
This paper assesses the contemporaneous, leading and lagging indicator properties of financial market variables relative to movements in six major developed country currency pairs. As indicator variables changes in various relative asset prices, short-term portfolio flows and currency options...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009639433
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Real exchange rate in an inter-temporal n-country-model with incomplete markets
Mercereau, Benoît - 2003
We develop an N-country model with stock markets in which closed-form solutions for the real exchange rate is derived. Our model allows for a given number of risky-assets, which form an incomplete market. Risky asset prices and allocations of risky assets among countries are determined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009639862
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Current account determinants and external sustainability in periods of structural change
Brissimis, Sophocles N.; Hondroyiannis, George; … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to study the main macroeconomic, financial and structural factors that shaped current account developments in Greece over the period from 1960 to 2007 and discuss these developments in relation to the issue of external sustainability. Concerns over Greece’s external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640297
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Reverse causality in global current accounts
Schnabl, Gunther; Freitag, Stephan - 2010
The paper discusses global imbalances under the aspect of an asymmetric world monetary system. It identifies the US and Germany as center countries with rising / high current account deficits (US) and surpluses (Germany). These are matched by current account surpluses of countries stabilizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640332
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Methodological advances in the assessment of equilibrium exchange rates
Bussière, Matthieu; Ca’ Zorzi, Michele; Chudík, … - 2010
This paper reviews three different concepts of equilibrium exchange rates that are widely used in policy analysis and constitute the backbone of the IMF CGER assessment: the Macroeconomic Balance, the External Sustainability and the reduced form approaches. We raise a number of econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640408
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Monetary policy shocks and portfolio choice
Fratzscher, Marcel; Saborowski, Christian; Straub, Roland - 2009
The paper shows that monetary policy shocks exert a substantial effect on the size and composition of capital flows and the trade balance for the United States, with a 100 basis point easing raising net capital inflows and lowering the trade balance by 1% of GDP, and explaining about 20-25% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640457
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The output composition puzzle
Angeloni, Ignazio; Kashyap, Anil K.; Mojon, Benoît; … - 2003
output changes. In the euro area investment is the predominant driver of output changes, while in the U.S. consumption shifts … several potential explanations for it. While the evidence seems to point at differences in consumption responses, rather than … investment, as the proximate cause for this fact, the source of the consumption difference remains a puzzle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635907