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There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...
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exchange rate is unobserved, and an additional equation that links this autarchic currency price with the FX order flow. The … autarchic (i.e. fundamental) FX returns. The model is calibrated and tested on the Czech koruna/euro exchange rate in a setting … with seven Czech and euro area asset returns. …
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or weak, in the sense that the dependence remains or vanishes asymptotically. We show that if one currency return reaches … crisis levels, the probability that the other currency breaks down as well vanishes asymptotically if the fundamentals … probability that the other currency breaks down as well remains strictly positive even in the limit. This result implies that …
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Standard economic models hold that exchange rates are influenced by fundamental variables such as relative money supplies, outputs, inflation rates and interest rates. Nonetheless, it has been well documented that such variables little help predict changes in floating exchange rates u0097 that...
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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 data are used. We find that changes in equity index differentials …, short-term speculative flows and risk reversals on currency options prices exhibit consistent contemporaneous indicator …
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participating currencies are in effect identical from inception of a currency union, the convergence process to such an identical …
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We study fiscal behaviour and the sovereign yield curve in the U.S. and Germany in the period 1981:I-2009:IV. The latent factors, level, slope and curvature, obtained with the Kalman filter, are used in a VAR with macro and fiscal variables, controlling for financial stress conditions. In the...
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We use EU sovereign bond yield and CDS spreads daily data to carry out an event study analysis on the reaction of government yield spreads before and after announcements from rating agencies (Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, Fitch). Our results show: significant responses of government bond yield...
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Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...
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Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the … United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects … originating from one of the three currency areas and intrasectoral spillover effects. We use daily data from the period between …
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