economic variables determine a given country’s currency bloc affiliation. The dollar bloc differs from the euro bloc in that …

This paper test for causality between the US Dollar-Euro exchange rate and US-EMU bond yield differentials. To that end …

: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve holdings of ….9). The advent of the euro interrupts the continuity of the historical data set. So we estimate parameters on pre-1999 data … dollar and euro over the period 1999-2004. Whether the euro might in the future rival or surpass the dollar as the world …

This paper employs the GMM estimator to empirically investigate the effects of Japanese international reserves on Yen … internationalization from 1976 through 2009 by specifying the regression benchmark based on the long-run determinants of Yen … internationalization with economic power, Yen appreciation, financial market development, inflation and currency inertia. We find that the …

and yen separately have on movements of Asian currencies. Contrary to recent evidence based on daily data, we found … than by the yuan or the yen individually within the sample period we used. To the extent that exchange rates in the region …

degree of Yen internationalization from 1976 through 2009 by specifying the regression benchmark based on the long …-run determinants of Yen internationalization with economic power, financial market development, Yen appreciation, inflation and … has a statistically significant but negative effect on Yen internationalization. After controlling for the effects of the …

, and yen separately have on movements of Asian currencies. Contrary to recent evidence based on daily data, we found … than by the yuan or the yen individually within the sample period we used. To the extent that exchange rates in the region …

economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become …