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In light of the recent discussion regarding the measurement of uncertainty and its impact on economic activity, this paper derives forward-looking measures of uncertainty and directional expectations for the CHF/EUR exchange rate based on over-the-counter option data and analyses its impact on...
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This paper investigates how exchange rates affect Japanese exports. This is difficult because many of Japan's exports … imported inputs from Japan. To correct for this bias the authors examine consumption exports. Using a panel dataset of Japan …'s consumption exports to 17 countries over the 1988–2009 period, they found that a 10% appreciation of the yen would reduce Japan …
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Currencies of countries with persistent current account surpluses and high foreign currency denominated assets such as the Swiss franc and Japanese yen are under a persistent appreciation pressure, what restricts the degree of freedom in the choice of exchange rate regime. Official announcements...
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shocks on output and the current account for China and Japan. We use structural vector auto-regression models and find that … yen appreciation reduces current account surpluses while having no strong effect on output in Japan. RMB appreciation, on …
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This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the 10 countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a data set of unbalanced...
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