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Conventional logic suggests that lowering the policy interest rate will stimulate consumption and investment while discouraging people from saving, but low interest rates may also prompt people to increase their saving to compensate for the low rate of return. Using data on 135 countries from...
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trade with another country and the competition Canada faces from that country on a product-by-product basis in third markets …
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Although the dollar has been shown to influence the expected wages of workers, the analysis to date has focused on the male workforce. We show that exchange rate fluctuations also have important implications for women's wages. The dominant wage effects for women—like those for men—arise at...
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Understanding the effects of exchange rate fluctuations across the population is important for increasingly globalized economies. Previous studies using industry aggregate data have found that industry wages are significantly more responsive than industry employment to exchange rate changes. We...
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This paper examines the determinants of cross-border flows of U.S. dollar banknotes, using a new panel data set of … role for official trade flows of goods. Our results thus confirm several hypotheses about the determinants of using a …
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This paper examines the determinants of cross-border flows of U.S. dollar banknotes, using a new panel data set of … role for official trade flows of goods. Our results thus confirm several hypotheses about the determinants of using a …
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trade with another country and the competition Canada faces from that country on a product-by-product basis in third markets …
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The focus is upon equilibrium real exchange rates, optimal external debt and their interaction, in a world where both the return on investment and the real rate of interest are stochastic variables. These theoretically based measures are applied empirically to answer the following questions:...
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instability, competition with other currencies (the euro), and trade flows, along with the usual suspects such as country size … intensive margin of dollar currency substitution has a positive relationship to the size of a country's trade flows and of its … secondary currency in countries with significant trade with the euro area …
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