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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063503
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The Triffin dilemma again
Campanella, Edoardo - 2010
Tiny changes in the American monetary policy can have dramatic effects on the rest of the world because of dollar's double role of national and international currency. This is the Triffin dilemma. The paper shows how it works through three examples: price of commodities, dollarization, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008648332
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Vehicle currency pricing and exchange rate pass-through
Chen, Natalie; Chung, Wanyu; Novy, Dennis - 2019
Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter's currency. We then study the relationship between invoicing currency choices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029070
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The real exchange rate in the long run : Balassa-Samuelson effects reconsidered
Bordo, Michael D.; Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Fazio, Giorgio; … - 2014
Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374513
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Dangerous liaisons? An empirical assessment of inflation targeting and exchange rate regimes
Aguirre, Horacio; Burdisso, Tamara - 2008
The role of the exchange rate under inflation targeting (IT) remains an unresolved issue in literature and policy … whether there is a relation between the nominal exchange rate regime and inflation performance in IT countries. We use a panel … regime that differs from a pure float entails higher or lower inflation. We use two de facto foreign exchange regime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325099
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Dangerous liaisons? : an empirical assessment of inflation targeting and exchange rate regimes
Aguirre, Horacio; Burdisso, Tamara - 2008
The role of the exchange rate under inflation targeting (IT) remains an unresolved issue in literature and policy … whether there is a relation between the nominal exchange rate regime and inflation performance in IT countries. We use a panel … regime that differs from a pure float entails higher or lower inflation. We use two de facto foreign exchange regime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003819680
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Nominal Exchange Rate Shocks and Inflation in an Open Economy : Towards a Structuralist Inflation Targeting Agenda
Bastian, Eduardo - 2017
This paper develops a model of inflation in an open economy. The model permits analysis of the susceptibility of open … paper arrives at a “structuralist inflation targeting agenda”. Based on a proper conception of inflation dynamics, this … involves “getting inflation targeting right” rather than either accepting mainstream inflation targeting prescriptions or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954770
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Understanding the time variation in exchange rate pass-through to import prices
Cunningham, Rose M.; Friedrich, Christian; Hess, Kristina; … - 2017
In this paper, we analyze the presence of time variation in the pass-through from the nominal effective exchange rate to import prices for 24 advanced economies over the period 1995-2015. In line with earlier studies in the literature, we find substantial heterogeneity in the level of exchange...
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Inflation, Openness, and Exchange-Rate-Regimes
Alfaro, Laura - 2009
does not play a role in restricting inflation in the short-run. On the other hand, a fixed exchange-rate regime plays a … significant role. The results are robust to controlling for other variables that determine inflation, performing sensitivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029404
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Sovereign default risk premia and state-dependent twin deficits : conference paper
Hürtgen, Patrick; Rühmkorf, Ronald - 2013 - This version: August 7, 2013
This paper studies the impact of the state-dependent risk of a government default on the correlation of the scal balance and current account. We use a small open economy model where nonlinear risk premia arise endogenously when the government operates close to its scal limit, i.e. the maximum...
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