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Foreign exchange reserve accumulation has risen dramatically in recent years. The introduction of the euro, greater liquidity in other major currencies, and the rising current account deficits and external debt of the United States have increased the pressure on central banks to diversify away...
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Exchange rate policies depend on portfolio choices, and portfolio choices depend on anticipated exchange rate policies. This opens the door to multiple equilibria in policy regimes. We construct a model in which agents optimally choose to denominate their assets and liabilities either in...
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to estimate the scope for dollarization of assets and liabilities (financial dollarization) as a function of … macroeconomic uncertainty. Within this benchmark, we find that financial dollarization displays high persistence whenever the … stabilization has been achieved. The empirical evidence confirms that MVP dollarization approximates financial dollarization closely …
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This chapter provides an overview of empirical results concerning recent exchange rate behavior. Alternative valuation measures, time series, and distributional properties have been covered in the chapter, along with estimates of transaction costs in the foreign exchange market. The chapter...
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We study investor trading behaviour and yield patterns in the UK government bond market during the recent Covid crisis. We show that the yield spike in mid-March 2020 was accompanied by heavy selling of gilts by UK-based insurance companies and pension funds (ICPFs), which we argue was an...
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