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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Exchange rate regimes"”.
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Essays on macroeconomic performance under alternative exchange rate regimes
… (1953) an advantage often attributed to flexible exchange rate regimes relative to fixed regimes is their ability to better insulate the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-1996) of 74 developing countries to assess whether the response of real GDP, real exchange …
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Essays on Political Factors, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Economic Growth
… explores the relationship among political regimes, regional initiatives, and exchange rate regimes in East and Southeast Asian countries, with a particular focus on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The work is structured around three interrelated essays, each addressing a critical aspect …
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Wage Structures, Exchange Rate Regimes, and the Transmission of Disturbances
… open macroeconomic framework. This thesis integrates the microeconomics of alternative worker (union) preferences concerning (absolute and relative) real wages and employment with the macro implication of alternative wage-setting arrangements.
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The interplay between exchange rate regimes and asset prices : a comprehensive investigation
… variables on stock returns by incorporating exchange rate regimes into the valuation process. This aim is motivated by the disparity between the surge in global portfolio equity flows, reaching $1.3 trillion1 in 2021, and the limited investment inflows into Africa, despite the region's robust …
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Economic and Financial Factors Affecting Currency Stability of Floating Exchange Rate Regimes: A Survival Analysis
… currency. Pressure periods are defined by an ‘Exchange Market Pressure’ indicator. The end of a tranquil period is a crisis and probabilities of these are determined through the model. The study revealed that the evolution of crisis probabilities over time are generally upward sloping. In the …
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Capital Controls and Banking Crises in Emerging Markets
… policies like macroprudential policies and exchange rate regimes. In addition, the signaling effect of capital controls may be a crucial element that must be considered during analysis. This dissertation tries to fill these gaps. We explore the relationship between capital controls and the …
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Dual exchange rates : theory, insulation properties and the South African experience
Dual exchange rate regimes are not a phenomenon peculiar only to South Africa. In the past they have been implemented by the BLEU, France, Italy and the Netherlands in one form or another. More recently, multiple exchange regimes have been adopted by other developing countries such as Mexico, …
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The Scope for Monetary Autonomy in Hong Kong and Singapore
… analysis. It implies that countries with fixed exchange rates and no capital controls will lose monetary autonomy. What is often not recognized, however, is that the trilemma need not hold in the short run. If capital mobility is less than perfect, then countries can sterilize reserve flows and …
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Exchange rate regime and exchange rate performance: evidence from East Asia
… going on in the international community of exchange rate regime, monetary policy and related core issues in East Asian economies. From different angles and aspects, this thesis contributes to the related literature, and provides fresh theoretical arguments and comprehensive study on the …
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A study of the factors determining the choice of exchange rate regime: with specific reference to China
Since the 1980s China had different exchange rate regimes. For example, in 1981, a dual-exchange rate system was introduced, with the official exchange rate applying to non-trade-related foreign exchange transactions and the depreciated internal settlement rate (ISR) applying to trade related …
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Money, income, and prices: the velocity of money in nine major O.E.C.D. economies
… theory with attention to its applicability under regimes of fixed and floating exchange rates, there is a discussion of the estimation of quarterly GNP for countries not reporting full series, using related quarterly and annual data by generalized least squares methods. Analysis of the …
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Comparative studies on the currency board regime and its impact on Hong Kong’s economy.
… 2 investigates output growth and inflation rate in order to compare the historical performance of free-floating and currency board regimes for Hong Kong. I apply some advanced econometrics tools to identify my structural VAR models and offer appropriate analysis. My first empirical model …
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The Origins and Legacy of a Currency Board in Argentina
… developing countries to adopt two forms of exchange rate regimes that allow for less government involvement, including a currency board. Argentina starts as a test country and then becomes (4) an ideological stepping stone to help promote the creation of currency boards across more …
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The economic impact of EMU on the EFTA countries
… member states, EFTA is the most closely integrated group with the EU. Now that the third and final stage of EMU is dose to completion, one can note a number of direct and indirect effects of this EU project on the four remaining members of EFTA. Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are members of …
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Essays in international finance
This thesis is a collection of three essays on exchange rate policies and international capital flows in emerging markets. The first chapter examines the theoretical foundations of the "fear of floating" that has been observed to characterize many emerging market exchange rate regimes. Building on …
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The determinants of the exchange rate volatility: A case study for South Africa
… countries to shift from fixed to flexible exchange rate regimes, resulting in increased exchange rate volatility. In line with this global trend, South Africa adopted a free-floating exchange rate system in the mid-1990s and implemented an explicit inflation-targeting framework in the early …
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Three essays in macroeconomics
Chapter 1 focuses on corporate governance and business cycles. The delegation of control to insiders fosters initiative but it also gives them the opportunity to expand their firm beyond the profit-maximizing size. When goods markets are imperfectly competitive, firms are too small relative to the …
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Essays on exchange rates and electricity demand
… two important issues in economic development: exchange rates and electricity demand and addresses methodological issues of using time series and panel data analysis to investigate important policy issues. In Chapter 2, I examine the impacts of a currency board on the adjustment of a small open …
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Nonlinear and Asymmetric Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Consumer Prices in South Africa
After the breakdown of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, some economies, including South Africa, abandoned fixed exchange rate regimes in favour of floating exchange rate systems. When a country adopts a floating exchange rate and an open trade policy, it loses the ability to shield its …
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Essays on Fiscal Policy
… will be made in a setting with different exchange-rate regimes and different degrees of openness. The second chapter develops a DSGE model which features incomplete asset markets, domestic debt denominated either in domestic or foreign currency, a risk premium on such debt and simple …
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