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It is often argued that deregulation of international transactions and its effects on the globalization of financial markets is behind the decline in the attractiveness of fixed exchange rate regimes. We argue that, instead, much of the recently observed decrease in the level of capital controls...
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Beginning in 2009, in many advanced economies, policy rates reached their zero lower bound (ZLB). Almost at the same time, oil prices started rising again. We analyze how the ZLB affects the propagation of oil shocks. As these shocks move inflation and output in opposite directions, their...
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capital inflow management. Tightening of capital inflow restrictions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the …
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This study inspects if there is greater convergence with Germany amongst the Eurozone founding members and if their relations with the hegemonic economy have been more symmetrical after "euroization". The dimensions explored are those inspired by the optimum currency areas (OCA) framework. To...
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. Using panel near-VARs, we find significant spillovers of capital control actions in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and …
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Understanding and predicting the evolution of exports after a change in the nominal exchange rate is of central importance in international economics. Most of the literature focuses on estimating this relationship by reduced form, with the aim of uncovering a single structural parameter, but...
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We build a two-country model with imperfect financial intermediation. Banks face limits to arbitrage which lead to positive excess returns in the investment markets and a risk premium in the international credit market. Gross capital flows affect the exchange rate since banks are balance sheet...
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This paper examines the relation between exchange rates and prices in India over three periods, 1975-1986, 1992-1998 and 1999-2010. These periods which are marked with changing trading and monetary policy regimes provide an interesting case study to analyze the importance of openness and...
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We develop a two-country two-period model able to reproduce the key qualitative aspects of the US-China co … sufficiently loose, thus reducing the real value of the US liabilities held by China, this latter finds less tempting to stop … China change from the maximization of GDP growth to higher households' standards of living, a rebalancing process may be …
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By employing a novel dataset on international capital flows, this paper examines the impact of Fed's quantitative easing (QE) policies on flows to emerging markets economies (EMEs) and the EU countries. Episodes of QE are examined separately, with the last episode divided between pre- and...
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