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This paper examines co-movements and volatility spillovers in the returns of the euro, the British pound, the Swiss … franc and the Japanese yen vis-à-vis the US dollar before and after the introduction of the euro. Based on dynamic … significant co-movements and volatility spillovers across the four exchange returns, but their extend is, on average, lower in the …
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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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This paper attempts to identify implicit exchange-rate regimes for currencies of candidate countries vis-à-vis the euro. To that end, we apply three sequential procedures that consider the dynamics of exchange rates to data covering the period from 1999:01 to 2012:12. Our results would suggest...
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The structural VAR models for European countries (France, Denmark, and Germany) are developed to examine the monetary …
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This study divides the world into currency zones according to the co-movement of each currency with the key currencies. The dollar zone groups economies that produce well over half of global GDP. The euro zone now includes almost all of Europe and some commodity producers, but remains less than...
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mark, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, French franc etc., have been occasionally serving as reserve currencies. The situation …
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This paper test for causality between the US Dollar-Euro exchange rate and US-EMU bond yield differentials. To that end, we apply Hsiao (1981)'s sequential procedure to daily data covering the 1999-2011 period. Our results suggest the existence of statistically significant Granger causality...
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Kingdom, euro area, Japan and Canada versus the United States. A new identification strategy is proposed building on sign …
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The paper analyses the trade-off between exchange rate flexibility and monetary policy autonomy. It tests empirically the "Possible Duality" hypothesis, i.e. whether countries with more flexible currency regimes are indeed able to exert more monetary policy autonomy than those with less flexible...
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