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Exchange rate targets in a stabilization game are considered. The targeting strategy consists on the choice of a desired level for the exchange and the weight assigned to such target in the loss function. The exchange rate target appears then as an intermediate objective and acts as a surrogate...
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Exchange rate targets in a stabilization game are considered. The targeting strategy consists on the choice of a desired level for the exchange and the weight assigned to such target in the loss function. The exchange rate target appears then as an intermediate objective and acts as a surrogate...
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We analyze a dual currency search model in which agents are allowed to hold multiple units of both currencies. Hence …, agents hold portfolios of currency. We study equilibria in which the two currencies are identical and equilibria in which the … two currencies differ according to the magnitude of the 'inflation tax' risk associated with each currency. The inflation …
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The paper documents how the code of conduct implied by membership of the escudo in the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the Europan Monetary System (ERM) allowed Portugal to qualify for Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), ultimately moving the currency into the euro. This unwritten code of conduct...
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The risk premium is a function of both the interest rate differential and the gap between the current exchange rate and its long-run equilibrium in a model of the foreign exchange market with both non-speculating traders and rational speculators. If the speculators have an alternative to...
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I asked "Does the Current Account Matter?" in Corden (1991). In that article I made a distinction between the Old View and the New View of the current account. The present paper will not repeat the exposition of these two views in any detail. Rather, the aim is both to improve on the rigour of...
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Accounting and Financial methods are useful techniques for business, but their objective study should be inserted in the wider scope of Social Science. Historical issues determine policies and these ones, themselves, configure taxes and other environmental variables. Taxes, interest rates and...
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What are the prospects for today’s top international currencies in the twenty-first century? This paper explores how … the future of the top currencies — the dollar, euro and yen— will be influenced by three key considerations: the logic of …
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