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The current paper expands on an earlier DDP (No.607), which had discussed the relationship between economic growth and exchange rate in Kenya. Based on data for the period 1970 to 1996, we analyze the possible direct and indirect relationship between the real and nominal exchange rates and GDP...
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The empirical evidence presented in this paper casts doubts on the by now widely accepted "fact"that the exchange rate based stabilization programs are expansionary. Even though these programs were associated with output booms, no evidence of booms caused both by the stabilization programs is...
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We estimate a three-country model using 1995-2013 data for Germany, the Rest of the Euro Area (REA) and the Rest of the World (ROW) to analyze the determinants of Germany’s current account surplus after the launch of the Euro. The most important factors driving the German surplus were positive...
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A large sample of developed and emerging economies is utilized to investigate import exchange rate pass-through. Panel models reveal that various economic aspects of the destination country can explain about one third of the total variation in pass-through elasticities and the remaining...
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international stock prices adjust to an exchange rate shock ?These questions are answered by analyzing quotes originating in New …
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autoregression. Using high-frequency data on the prices of eurodollar contracts, we measure the impact of the surprise component of …
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This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tripolar and centred around the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s “dominance hypothesis”, i.e. whether the renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia,...
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The empirical analysis of the paper suggests that an FX policy objective and concerns about an overheating of the domestic economy have been the two main motives for the (re-)introduction and persistence of capital controls over the past decade. Capital controls are strongly associated with...
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This paper takes a financial market perspective in examining the relationship between oil prices, the US dollar and … asset prices, and it exploits the heteroskedasticity for the identification of causality in a multifactor model. It finds a … bidirectional causality between the US dollar and oil prices since the early 2000s. Moreover, both oil prices and the US dollar are …
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