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This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...
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This dissertation studies the relationship between exchange rate regimes and financing decisions of corporations in small open economies with access to international capital markets.The first essay develops a model of the choice between local and foreign currency debt by capital-constrained...
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The three papers that comprise my dissertation study international asset markets. The first paper “What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?” shows that, despite their widespread use, oil futures prices are less accurate in the mean-squared error sense than no-change forecasts....
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Capital account liberalization and exchange rate regime choice, what scope for flexibility in Tunisia? This study evaluates within a game-theoretic framework the exchange rate regime from a welfare perspective. In a tradable-nontradable goods model framework, Tunisia’s exchange rate regime...
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Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the...
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This paper analyzes the behaviour of the external adjustment path for the four main economies in the euro area. I find … a structural break in the behaviour of the net external position at the time of the introduction of the euro for France … area could have exacerbated Germany’s net creditor position as the evolution of the euro has reacted to the external …
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de Estados Unidos en el momento de la introducción del euro. Finalmente, hay implicaciones de valoración de activos … position around the time of the introduction of the euro. Finally, I document asset pricing implications from the relationship …
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entry to the euro. We derive conditional probability distributions for the difference between the future realisations of …, Pesaran and Smith (2005). The paper briefly describes the GVAR which has been estimated for 25 countries and the euro area … euro area as a result of entry. It examines the sensitivity of these results to a variety of assumptions about UK entry. …
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This paper reviews recent work on macroeconomic management with varying organization of wage/price bargaining and degrees of credible monetary conservatism. The emerging literature synthesizes and extends theory and empirics on central bank independence (CBI) and coordinated wage/price...
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exchange rate stability constraints imposed by the obligatory participation in the ERM2 on the path to the euro. The modified … policy framework is based on targeting the differential between the domestic and the implicit euro area inflation forecasts …
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