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The adoption of quantitative easing (QE) policy by the United States (US) Federal Reserve Bank since early 2009 has aroused widespread concerns in Asia and elsewhere regarding its possible impact in terms of the weakening of the US dollar and stimulating capital outflows to emerging economies...
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We document that during the Global Recession, US monetary policy easings triggered the "exorbitant duty" of the United States, the issuer of the world's dominant currency, by causing a dollar appreciation and a transfer of wealth from the United States to the rest of the world. This dollar...
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: Australia, New Zealand, USA and Japan. The main findings showed that both short-term and cyclical exchange rate volatility are …
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Most intervention studies have been silent on the assumed structure of the economic system - implicitly imposing implausible assumptions - despite the fact that inference depends crucially on such issues. This paper identifies the cross-effects of intervention and the level of exchange rates...
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During the 1997/98 Asian crisis and the 2007-2010 world financial and economic crisis, China has proved to be a … China. The paper explores the current role of China's nominal exchange rate stabilization as stabilizing factor for China … policy coordination between China and the US. The exit from unconventional low interest rate policies in the US combined with …
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We assess the behavior of real effective exchange rates (REERs) of members of the CEMAC zone with respect to their long-term equilibrium paths. A reduced form of the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER) model is estimated and associated misalignments are derived for the period 1980 to...
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With the spectre of the Euro crisis hunting embryonic monetary unions, we use a dynamic model of a small open economy to analyze REERs imbalances and examine whether the movements in the aggregate real exchange rates are consistent with the underlying macroeconomic fundamentals in the proposed...
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Empirical confirmation that the effect of macroeconomic fundamentals on exchange rates is economically important has been scarce. This paper employs a general GARCH specification with asymmetric responses to investigate the effect of 35 U.S. and German macroeconomic news announcements on the...
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We assess the behavior of real effective exchange rates (REERs) of members of the CEMAC zone with respect to their long-term equilibrium paths. A reduced form of the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER) model is estimated and associated misalignments are derived for the period 1980 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043660