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Gold's overly long farewell as money
Herr, Hansjörg - 2024
Today all countries have fiat money issued by a central bank. There is no obligation by a central bank to exchange its … money for gold or any other good. Central banks have the monopoly to issue central bank money and have the power to create … their money out of nothing. Creating such a monetary system is functional for a capitalist economy and must be regarded as a …
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Boom, bust, and Bitcoin : Bitcoin-bubbles as innovation accelerators
Huber, Tobias; Sornette, Didier - 2020
Bitcoin represents one of the most interesting technological breakthroughs and socio-economic experiments of the last decades. In this paper, we examine the role of speculative bubbles in the process of Bitcoin's technological adoption by analyzing its social dynamics. We trace Bitcoin's genesis...
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The effects of variance breaks on homogenous panel unit root tests
Herwartz, Helmut; Siedenburg, Florian - 2009
Noting that many economic variables display occasional shifts in their second order moments, we investigate the performance of homogenous panel unit root tests in the presence of permanent volatility shifts. It is shown that in this case, panel unit root tests derived under time invariant...
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Global policy at the zero lower bound in a large-scale DSGE model
Gomes, Sandra; Jacquinot, Pascal; Mestre, Ricardo - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether fiscal policies can alleviate the effects of the zero lower bound (ZLB) on interest rates and if they should be coordinated internationally. The analysis is carried out using EAGLE, a DSGE model of the global economy. We consider that the fiscal...
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World real interes rates : a tale of two regimes
Chadha, Jagjit - 2012
Global real interest rates were driven up in the 1980s, partly to encourage disinflation, while subsequently structural and conjunctural factors have driven rates to lower levels. The increase in the global pool of savings and the fiscal correction associated with the long economic expansion...
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GPU Pricing of Exotic Cross-Currency Interest Rate Derivatives with a Foreign Exchange Volatility Skew Model
Dang, Duy-Minh - 2011
pricing of long-dated foreign exchange (FX) interest rate hybrids, namely Power Reverse Dual Currency (PRDC) swaps with …
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The Impact of the Basel III Liquidity Standards on the Implementation of Monetary Policy
Schmitz, Stefan W. - 2012
interaction between the money market and monetary policy implementation. Based thereon, I argue that the future challenges to … the unsecured money market rate. Finally, I discuss potential policy reactions …
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Euro Crisis : From the Sovereigns to the Banks and Back to the Sovereigns
Gurdgiev, Constantin - 2011
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 crystallized the underlying imbalances that are currently acting to tear apart the Euro area monetary and fiscal systems by focusing markets and public attention on the core cause of the overall Euro crisis, the insolvency of the Euro area member-states...
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Unemployment and Productivity in the Long Run : The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility
Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2011
We propose a theory of low-frequency movements in unemployment based on downward real wage rigidities. The theory generates two main predictions: long-run unemployment increases with (i) a fall in long-run productivity growth and (ii) a rise in the variance of productivity growth. Evidence based...
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Multilateral Virtual Currency Model
Gikhman, Ilya I. - 2012
This project represents a basic design of a multilateral FX market that synthetically connected to the modern bilateral FX market. The essence of the multilateral FX market is an introduction of the single rates generating by the multilateral FX structures. These single rates are single currency...
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