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The paper addresses the issue of the role of exchange rate jumps. The short-run dynamics of the peseta's effective exchange rate vis-a- vis OECD countries over the period 1974:1 - 1995:9 is estimated using a PPP-based error-correction model enlarged with additional terms allowing for the...
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The paper studies the transmission of monetary policy through its effects on the exchange rate and on long-term interest rates under different schemes of expectations formation, within the framework of the quaterly model of the Banca d'Italia (BIQM).
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The paper documents how the code of conduct implied by membership of the escudo in the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the Europan Monetary System (ERM) allowed Portugal to qualify for Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), ultimately moving the currency into the euro. This unwritten code of conduct...
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This paper analyzes the costs and benefits for an emerging economy to formally adopt dollarization. The magnitude of the costs and benefits involved in this process will not be the same for all countries and depend on the particular characteristics of each economy as well as its relationship...
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Several recent studies imply that the response of national saving to fiscal policy is non-monotonic. In this paper, we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-monotonic responses arise: one refers to a sample of OECD countries, as in previous studies, and one to a...
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Portugal and Spain. Portugal and Spain are two countries that share the same peninsular space in the west corner of Europe … two countries (Portugal joined the gold standard while Spain remained off the gold standard). Finally, the Bank of … Portugal and the Bank of Spain exhibit also significant contrasts in their behavior as central banks. …
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We study the transmission of monetary policy from the United States to Canada under flexible exchange rates. Our results suggest that flexible exchange rates insulate a country from foreign monetary disturbances. We find that the direct effect of a monetary contraction in the U.S. is a small...
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