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Nonlinear relationship between exchange rate volatility and economic growth
Phiri, Andrew - 2018
In this paper, we challenge the traditional assumption of a linear relationship between exchange rate volatility and … volatility positively and significantly influences economic growth when growth in government spending is below 6 percent. Above … this 6 percent threshold, volatility exerts an insignificant effect on economic growth. In light of the adoption of a free …
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Policy responses to Turkey's crisis : independent central bank and international credit
Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Rieth, Malte - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 38/39, pp. 355-363
The presently tenuous situation in Turkey will worsen if the government does not take appropriate policy action. In view of foreign investors’ loss of confidence, the cost of external financing is likely to rise while consumption and investment will fall, and the Turkish lira would depreciate...
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Postponing Global Adjustment : An Analysis of the Pending Adjustment of Global Imbalances
Truman, Edwin M. - 2005
Halving the US current account deficit as a share of GDP is likely to impose a burden of $2,350 per capita on the United States, which explains why US policymakers want to postpone adjustment. The rest of the world relies on the economic stimulus of a widening US external deficit, which explains...
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Economic policy in India : for economic stimulus, or for austerity and volatility?
Sen, Sunanda; DasGupta, Zico - 2014
volatility and macroeconomic instability in the midst of the global recession. …
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Central Bank Communication on Fiscal Policy
Allard, Julien - 2012
While the established literature on central bank communication has traditionally dealt with communication of monetary … policy messages to financial markets and the wider public, central bank communication on fiscal policy has so far received … little attention. This paper empirically reviews the intensity of central banks' fiscal communication by five central banks …
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Financial and fiscal crises, prices and EUR/USD rate of exchange
Bukowski, Slawomir I.; Bukowska, Joanna E. - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 10 (2017) 3, pp. 73-79
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to answer the following question: How did the standard and non-standard ECB policy measures influence the price level and the EUR/USD rate of exchange in the period 2008-2013? Design/methodology/approach: We formulated the following hypothesis: Depreciation...
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Public debt tipping point studies ingnore how exchange rate changes may create a financial meltdown
Pope, Robin; Selten, Reinhard - 2011
In studies concluding that public debt may hamper GDP, the debt tipping effects are estimated as if there were a single world currency. This means that such studies ignore the likely biggest cause of changes in growth rates, namely damage from exchange rate liquidity shocks because we do not...
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Currency wars, not public debt, may create a financial meltdown : conference paper
Pope, Robin; Selten, Reinhard - 2013
In studies concluding that public debt may hamper GDP growth, the debt tipping effects are estimated as if there were a single global currency. This means that such studies ignore the likely biggest cause of changes in growth rates, namely damage from exchange rate liquidity shocks because we do...
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Update to figure 1 in "Macroeconomic Shocks and their Propagation"
Chiarotti, Edoardo - 2021
This note proposes an update to Figure 1 in "Macroeconomic Shocks and their Propagation" in the Handbook of Macroeconomics of 2016 (Ramey, 2016). Figure 1 of Ramey (2016) reports Impulse-Response Functions (IRFs) of variables of interest to a shock in the Federal Funds Rate, following the...
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Yield curve control
Kortelainen, Mika - 2020
We study the yield curve control in Eurozone. We apply Chen, Cúrdia and Ferrero (2012) model that uses a financial friction to break Wallace's neutrality. We calibrate a bond supply shock that corresponds to the observed change in the time premium in euro area when the APP program was...
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