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This paper examines the use of U.S. cash dollars as a secondary currency in informal transactions worldwide. While there is considerable interest in and a large theoretical literature on the use of secondary currencies, few empirical results have been established. The primary reason is that the...
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In our model, cross-currency basis, which captures the deviations from covered interest rate parity (CIP), reflects the relative value of the scarcer currency (US dollar) as collateral in funding constraints. Our empirical evidence shows that measures of dollar shortage derived from ECB tenders,...
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This study is an attempt to understand the behavior of Indian foreign exchange rate and its volatility characteristics by using a daily observation of Indian Rupee against US Dollar over the period of 40 years from 1st April 1973 to 31st March 2012. The foreign exchange rate volatility of Indian...
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This paper is an attempt to study and understand the dynamics of Indian Rupee fluctuations against US Dollar using yearly observations over the period of 12 years from 2001 to 2012. In this paper, evolution of exchange rate mechanism from fixed to hybrid exchange rate system in context of India...
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The aim of this paper is to discuss excess comovements for the Euro/US dollar and British pound/US dollar exchange rates, i.e. we look for comovements of exchange rates which are stronger than implied by fundamentals. The results of the empirical analysis give evidence that excess comovements...
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This study introduces a comprehensive Google search volume based Bitcoin sentiment index (BSI) by following the methodology of Da, Engelberg, and Gao (2014). BSI is investigated for its association with Bitcoin returns, trade volume, volatility, and United States dollar exchange rates (USD)....
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The strength of the US dollar has attributes of a barometer of dollar credit conditions, whereby a stronger dollar is … associated with tighter dollar credit conditions. Using finely disaggregated data on export shipments, we examine how dollar …-funded bank credit suffer a decline in exports due to increased funding costs. We argue that the US dollar is a global financial …
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The present paper uses a sample of 66 US Dollar-trading Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS or sometimes-called Newcits) to find that the risk-adjusted performance of some strategies (i.e., Equity Long-biased, FOF, Fixed Income and Sector specific)...
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In this study, we use for the first time the conditional heteroscedasticity specifications (GARCH, AGARCH, APARCH, Asymmetry MEM, MEM, EGARCH, GJR GARCH, and GAS-GARCH Student t models) to examine the volatility of exchange rate returns between the US Dollar and the Euro. So, the conditional...
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One of the largest financial markets in the world is the “global foreign exchange market” with average daily trades in trillions of dollars. The forex market is the backbone of international trade, global investing and is critical to support imports and exports. The exchange rate is one of...
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