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The Japanese zero-interest rate period provides a “natural experiment” for investigating the effectiveness and transmission channels of sterilized intervention when traditional monetary policy options are constrained. This paper takes advantage of the fact that all interventions in the...
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Cambodia's economic and social achievements over the past ten years have been the most impressive in its history. Nevertheless, Cambodia today is still as dollarized, if not more so, than it was ten years ago. What is this so, and what, if anything, should the Government do? This paper attempts...
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volatility. On days of broad dollar strengthening, the CNY is found to depreciate against the dollar but appreciate against the …
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dollar, Japanese yen, and the British pound relative to the U.S. dollar from 1979 to 2008 shows that, through the …
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We investigate the effects of Central Bank interventions which are designed to smooth exchange rate volatility but are …
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Regional monetary and financial cooperation in Asia has been discussed for years. To move towards a coordinated exchange rate policy, Ogawa and Shimizu (2005) proposed both an Asian Monetary Unit (AMU), which is a common currency basket computed as a weighted average of the thirteen ASEAN 3...
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This paper analyzes the factors underlying the weakness of the euro. For this purpose, the framework advocated by Clarida and Gali (1994) is used. Within this model, three structural shocks drive the dynamics of the endogenous variables: aggregate supply shocks, aggregate spending shocks, and...
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This paper uses recently released official data on the foreign exchange market interventions of the Bank of Japan (BoJ …) in the yen/U.S. dollar market during the period 1991-2001 in order to examine the motivation for the intervention policy … regularly responded to deviations of the yen/U.S. dollar exchange rate from a short-term and a long-term exchange rate target …
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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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the Swiss franc and Japanese yen are under a persistent appreciation pressure, what restricts the degree of freedom in the …
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