Showing papers on "Currency published in 2006"
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined Philippine households' responses to overseas members' economic shocks and found that these positive income shocks lead to enhanced human capital accumulation and entrepreneurship in migrants' origin households.
Abstract: Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households%u2019 responses to overseas members%u2019 economic shocks Overseas Filipinos work in dozens of foreign countries, which experienced sudden (and heterogeneous) changes in exchange rates due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis Appreciation of a migrant%u2019s currency against the Philippine peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas The estimated elasticity of Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 060 These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human capital accumulation and entrepreneurship in migrants%u2019 origin households Child schooling and educational expenditure rise, while child labor falls In the area of entrepreneurship, households raise hours worked in self-employment, and become more likely to start relatively capital-intensive household enterprises
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TL;DR: This article reviewed and reassessed the methodology and principal findings of the "Rose effect", i.e., the trade effects of currency union, looking at both EMU and non-EMU currency unions.
Abstract: This paper reviews and reassesses the methodology and principal findings of the "Rose effect," i.e., the trade effects of currency union, looking at both EMU and non-EMU currency unions. The consensus estimate suggests that the euro has already boosted intra-euro area trade by five to ten percent. The paper discusses a gamut of models that might explain the Rose effect in Europe and suggests a series of empirical test that could help identify the economic mechanisms involved.
453 citations
TL;DR: The authors developed an equilibrium model in which exchange rates, stock prices and capital flows are jointly determined under incomplete forex risk trading, showing that higher returns in the home equity market relative to the foreign equity market are associated with a home currency depreciation and net equity flows into the foreign market are positively correlated with a foreign currency appreciation.
Abstract: We develop an equilibrium model in which exchange rates, stock prices and capital flows are jointly determined under incomplete forex risk trading. Incomplete hedging of forex risk, documented for US global mutual funds, has three important implications: 1) exchange rates are almost as volatile as equity prices when the forex liquidity supply is not infinitely price elastic; 2) higher returns in the home equity market relative to the foreign equity market are associated with a home currency depreciation; 3) net equity flows into the foreign market are positively correlated with a foreign currency appreciation. The model predictions are strongly supported at daily, monthly and quarterly frequencies for 17 OECD countries vis-a-vis the US. Moreover, correlations are strongest after 1990 and for countries with higher market capitalization relative to GDP, suggesting that the observed exchange rate dynamics are indeed related to equity market development.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors econometrically estimate determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve holdings of the world's central banks and forecast the Euro to surpass the dollar as the leading international reserve currency by 2022.
Abstract: Might the dollar eventually follow the precedent of the pound and cede its status as leading international reserve currency? Unlike the last time this question was prominently discussed, ten years ago, there now exists a credible competitor: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve holdings of the world’s central banks. Significant factors include: size of the home country, inflation rate (or lagged depreciation trend), exchange rate variability, and size of the relevant home financial center (as measured by the turnover in its foreign exchange market). We have not found that net international debt position is an important determinant. Network externality theories would predict a tipping phenomenon. Indeed we find that the relationship between currency shares and their determinants is nonlinear (which we try to capture with a logistic function, or else with a dummy “leader” variable for the largest country). But changes are felt only with a long lag (we estimate a weight on the preceding year’s currency share around 0.9). The advent of the euro interrupts the continuity of the historical data set. So we estimate parameters on pre-1999 data, and then use them to forecast the EMU era. The equation correctly predicts a (small) narrowing in the gap between the dollar and euro over the period 1999-2004. Whether the euro might in the future rival or surpass the dollar as the world’s leading international reserve currency appears to depend on two things: (1) do enough other EU members join euroland so that it becomes larger than the US economy, and (2) does US macroeconomic policy eventually undermine confidence in the value of the dollar, in the form of inflation and depreciation. What we learn about functional form and parameter values helps us forecast, contingent on these two developments, how quickly the euro might rise to challenge the dollar. Under two important scenarios – the remaining EU members, including the UK, join EMU by 2020 or else the recent depreciation trend of the dollar persists into the future – the euro may surpass the dollar as leading international reserve currency by 2022.
352 citations
TL;DR: The authors surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance and emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different modalities of exchange and circulation.
Abstract: This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It emphasizes money’s social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different modalities of exchange and circulation. It reviews scholarly emphasis on modern money’s distinctive qualities of commensuration, abstraction, quantification, and reification. It also addresses recent work that seeks to understand the social, semiotic, and performative dimensions of finance. Although anthropology has contributed finely grained, historicized accounts of the impact of modern money, it too often repeats the same story of the “great transformation” from socially embedded to disembedded and abstracted economic forms. This review speculates about why money’s fictions continue to surprise.
335 citations
TL;DR: This article studied the relationship between financial development and real GDP per capita growth in 48 countries and found that only stock market development has positive effects on growth and that banking development has an unfavorable, if not negative, effect on growth.
Abstract: We re-study the relationship between financial development and real GDP
per capita growth in 48 countries. What we find is an interesting evidence
that only stock market development has positive effects on growth and that
banking development has an unfavorable, if not negative, effect on growth.
We examine whether or not these impacts are a product of various financial
and economic conditional variables. Our conditional variables consist of
financial liberalization, two sets of country development dummies, crises
in banking and currency dummies, the creditor protection index as well
as the anti-director and corruption indices. Our results clearly show that
the conditional variables of financial liberalization, high-income level, and
good shareholder protection mitigate the negative impacts of banking development
on growth. In contrast, the conditional variables of middle-income
level, regional Latin American, Sub-Saharan African and East Asian dummies,
banking and currency crises, good creditor protection, and higher
corruption strengthen the negative impacts of banking development on
growth. Next, the conditional variables of middle-income level, Latin American,
Sub-Saharan African, and East Asian dummies strengthen the positive
impacts of stock market development on growth, whereas the conditional
variables of financial liberalization mitigate the positive impacts of stock
market development on growth. Last, we find that the relationship between
growth and bank development is better described as a weak inverse Ushape.
This inverse U-shape becomes stronger when additional stock market
variables are squared. Thus, financial development and growth may, in
fact, be in a nonlinear form.
330 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, monopolistic competition and producer currency pricing and derived a quadratic approximation to the utility of the consumers.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors support the view that the de facto dollar peg may now have outlived its usefulness for China and support the use of fixed and flexible exchange rates each have advantages, and a country has the right to choose the regime suited to its circumstances.
Abstract: Fixed and flexible exchange rates each have advantages, and a country has the right to choose the regime suited to its circumstances. Nevertheless, several arguments support the view that the de facto dollar peg may now have outlived its usefulness for China. (i) Although foreign exchange reserves are a useful shield against currency crises, by now China’s current level is fully adequate, and US treasury securities do not pay a high return. (ii) It may become increasingly difficult to sterilize the inflow over time. (iii) Although external balance could be achieved by expenditure reduction, e.g. by raising interest rates, the existence of two policy goals (external balance and internal balance) in general requires the use of two independent policy instruments (e.g. the real exchange rate and the interest rate). (iv) A large economy like China can achieve adjustment in the real exchange rate via flexibility in the nominal exchange rate more easily than via price flexibility. (v) The experience of other emerging markets points toward exiting from a peg when times are good and the currency is strong, rather than waiting until times are bad and the currency is under attack. (vi) From a longer-run perspective, prices of goods and services in China are low—not just low relative to the US (0.23), but also low by the standards of a Balassa–Samuelson relationship estimated across countries (which predicts 0.36). In this specific sense, the yuan was undervalued by � 35 percent in 2000, and is by at least as much as that today. The study finds that, typically across countries, such gaps are corrected halfway, on average, over the subsequent decade. These six arguments for increased exchange rate flexibility need not imply a free float. China is a good counter-example to the popular ‘‘corners hypothesis’’ prohibition on intermediate exchange rate regimes. However, the specific changes announced by the Chinese authorities in July 2005 have not yet resulted in a de facto abandonment of the
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TL;DR: The authors assesses the size and types of costs that have been associated with these defaults and concludes that costs, measured by the fall in output, are particularly large when default is combined with banking and/or currency crises.
Abstract: Over the past quarter of a century, emerging market economies (EMEs) have defaulted on their sovereign debts frequently. This article assesses the size and types of costs that have been associated with these defaults. It emphasises that costs, measured by the fall in output, are particularly large when default is combined with banking and/or currency crises. Output losses also seem to increase the longer that countries stay in arrears or take to restructure their debts. The paper concludes with a number of policy suggestions to improve debt crisis prevention and management and the role played by the IMF.
260 citations
TL;DR: The authors examined how financial constraints and product market exposures determine the response of multinational and local firms to sharp depreciations and showed that a differential ability to circumvent financial constraints is a significant determinant of the observed differences in investment responses.
Abstract: This paper examines how financial constraints and product market exposures determine the response of multinational and local firms to sharp depreciations. U.S. multinational affiliates increase sales, assets, and investment significantly more than local firms during, and subsequent to, depreciations. Differing product market exposures do not explain these differences in performance. Instead, a differential ability to circumvent financial constraints is a significant determinant of the observed differences in investment responses. Multinational affiliates also access parent equity when local firms are most constrained. These results indicate another role for foreign direct investment in emerging marketsmultinational affiliates expand economic activity during currency crises when local firms are most constrained.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of economic shocks on origin-household investments in the Philippines and found that the estimated elasticity of Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60.
Abstract: Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households%u2019 responses to overseas members%u2019 economic shocks. Overseas Filipinos work in dozens of foreign countries, which experienced sudden (and heterogeneous) changes in exchange rates due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Appreciation of a migrant%u2019s currency against the Philippine peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human capital accumulation and entrepreneurship in migrants%u2019 origin households. Child schooling and educational expenditure rise, while child labor falls. In the area of entrepreneurship, households raise hours worked in self-employment, and become more likely to start relatively capital-intensive household enterprises.
TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical taxonomy of currencies constructing minimal-spanning trees is derived by analyzing the foreign exchange market data of various currencies, and the key currencies in each cluster are found.
Abstract: By analyzing the foreign exchange market data of various currencies, we derive a hierarchical taxonomy of currencies constructing minimal-spanning trees. Clustered structure of the currencies and the key currency in each cluster are found. The clusters match nicely with the geographical regions of corresponding countries in the world such as Asia or East Europe, the key currencies are generally given by major economic countries as expected.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess whether the crisis of the last 30 years are of different varieties by assessing whether they are of one size fits all (SFI) or not.
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the development of 49 local bond markets and finds that countries with stable inflation rates and strong creditor rights have more developed local bond market and rely less on foreign-currency-denominated bonds.
Abstract: This paper analyzes the development of 49 local bond markets. The main finding is that policies and laws matter: countries with stable inflation rates and strong creditor rights have more developed local bond markets and rely less on foreign-currency-denominated bonds. The results suggest that “original sin” is a misnomer. Emerging economies are not inherently dependent on foreign currency debt. Rather, by improving policy performance and strengthening institutions, they may develop local currency bond markets, reduce their currency mismatch, and lessen the likelihood of future crises.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine the nature and the economic significance of the exchange rate to firm value relation using a database of non-financial firms from over 18 countries.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the determinants of currency invoicing in international trade and found that a country's membership or prospective membership of the EU plays a decisive role in the choice of the euro as a currency.
Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants of currency invoicing in international trade. Although the currency of invoicing is central for the transmission of monetary policy, empirical research on this topic is scarce due to a lack of data. With a new extensive invoicing dataset and a panel model analysis this paper shows that a country’s membership or prospective membership of the EU plays a decisive role in the choice of the euro as invoicing currency. The role of the euro as vehicle currency is increasing but still limited when compared to the U.S. dollar. Monetary instability and low product differentiation favour vehicle pricing in U.S. dollar. An increase of euro invoicing due to higher exchange rate volatility supports the role of the euro as vehicle currency, however. High market power defined as the share of a country’s total exports to world exports and membership of the euro area make invoicing in the home currency (euro) more likely.
TL;DR: This article showed that a large, significant effect of a fixed exchange rate on bilateral trade between a base country and a country that pegs to it can be found when using a new data-based classification of fixed exchange rates.
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TL;DR: In economics, money illusion refers to the tendency of people to think of currency in nominal, rather than real, terms as mentioned in this paper. But it seems really important we all need to recognize that the investor are claims.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce money in a model of banking in order to examine how open market operations can affect aggregate bank lending and output, and they see two important ways changes in money supply affect the banking system.
Abstract: We introduce money in a model of banking in order to examine how open market operations can affect aggregate bank lending and output. We see two important ways changes in money supply affect the banking system. First, by changing prices and interest rates, it affects the wealth of demanders of real liquidity, and thus the equilibrium production of liquid assets, aggregate output, and the health of the banking system. Second, it changes the value of money as a means of payment, and thus the attractiveness of moving from deposits to currency (the demand for financial liquidity). Again, this impacts the health of the banking system and thus bank lending and aggregate output. We use this understanding to see how changes in money supply can create, alleviate, or be ineffective in banking crises.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether sudden-stop crises are a unique phenomenon and whether they entail an especially large and abrupt pattern of output collapse (a bMexican waveQ) using a panel data set over 1975-1997 and covering 24 emerging-market economies, and distinguish between the output effects of currency crises, capital inflow reversals, and sudden stop crises.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw a simple link between the choice of currency and the pricing decision of a firm that changes prices in response to all shocks and show that a firm with a price list will set the price in its own currency (and otherwise it will set price in the foreign currency).
Abstract: Firms sometimes write price lists or catalogs for their exports, so they set prices for a period of time and do not adjust prices during that interval in response to changes in their environment. The firm sets the price either in its own currency or the importer's currency. This paper draws a simple link between the choice of currency and the pricing decision of a firm that changes prices in response to all shocks. Specifically, if the latter firm's price has a lower variance in terms of its own currency than the importer's currency, then the firm with a price list will set the price in its own currency (and otherwise it will set price in the foreign currency). This relationship is established by consideration of the firm with a price list as a special case of a firm that indexes its export price to the exchange rate. (JEL: F4, F1)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the risks that Singapore-based architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms face when working in India and investigate the risk response techniques adopted by them.
TL;DR: A review of exchange exposure literature can be found in this paper, with particular reference to recent developments, focusing on two primary areas of inquiry: the theoretical foundations of exchange risk exposure and the empirical evidence on the link between stock returns and currency fluctuations.
TL;DR: The use of value estimates measured in one country to value policy changes in another country would seem to introduce some unique issues and challenges, even when the good being valued is identical as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new database on government debt in 19 emerging market countries since 1980, focusing on the structure of debt in terms of jurisdiction of insurance, maturity, currency composition and indexation.
Abstract: This paper presents a new database on government debt in 19 emerging market countries since 1980. The data set focuses on the structure of debt in terms of jurisdiction of insurance, maturity, currency composition and indexation. The paper presents stylized facts on debt structures and preliminary evidence on their determinants. We observe substantial cross-country variation in the structure of domestic debt and find it to be associated with countries` record of monetary stability.
TL;DR: The second edition of the Reference Guide as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive source of practical information for countries to fight money laundering and terrorist financing, as well as various elements that are part of a comprehensive legal and institutional framework for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism for any country.
Abstract: Efforts to launder money and finance terrorism have been evolving rapidly in recent years in response to heightened counter measures. The international community has witnessed the use of increasingly sophisticated methods to move illicit funds through financial systems across the globe and has acknowledged the need for improved multilateral cooperation to fight these criminal activities. This second edition is to serve as a single, comprehensive source of practical information for countries to fight money laundering and terrorist financing. It discusses the problems caused by these crimes, the specific actions countries need to take to address them and the role international organizations play in the process. The report is organized as follows: Part A of this Reference Guide describes the problem of money laundering and terrorist financing, their adverse consequences, and the benefits of an effective regime. It also identifies the relevant international standard-setting organizations and discusses their specific efforts and instruments that fight these activities. Part B describes the various elements that are part of a comprehensive legal and institutional framework for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism for any country. This part of the Reference Guide is a step-by-step approach to achieve compliance with international standards, although it does not dictate the specific methods or actions to be adopted. Rather, it raises the issues that must be addressed and discusses the options that a country has in order to resolve these issues. Part C describes the role of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the global effort and the coordination of technical assistance available to countries in order to help them achieve compliance with international standards. Each chapter is a self-contained discussion of the topics covered in that chapter with detailed references to background and original source materials. Annexes I, II and III provide complete citations to reference materials.
TL;DR: The authors argue that restaurant prices in the euro area increased dramatically after the introduction of the euro and that this increase can be explained by a common model of menu cost pricing, extended to include the state-dependent decision of firms on when to adopt the new currency.
Abstract: Restaurant prices in the euro area increased dramatically after the introduction of the euro. We argue that this increase can be explained by a common model of menu cost pricing, extended to include the state-dependent decision of firms on when to adopt the new currency. Two mechanisms drive this result. First, firms concentrate otherwise staggered price increases around the changeover. Second, before the adoption of the Euro, prices do not reflect the marginal cost increases expected to occur after the changeover. This “horizon effect” disappears as soon as the new currency is adopted, causing a jump in the optimal price.
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24 Jul 2006TL;DR: Bernhard and Leblang as mentioned in this paper examined the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets and found that when these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases.
Abstract: The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can forecast the result, returns do not exhibit any unusual behavior. Further, political expectations condition how markets respond to the political process. When news causes market actors to update their political beliefs, market actors reallocate their portfolios, and overall market behavior changes. To measure political information, Professors Bernhard and Leblang employ sophisticated models of the political process. They draw on a variety of models of market behavior, including the efficient markets hypothesis, capital asset pricing model, and arbitrage pricing theory, to trace the impact of political events on currency, stock, and bond markets. The analysis will appeal to academics, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates across political science, economics, and finance.
TL;DR: Helliwig and Mukherji as mentioned in this paper developed a stylized currency crisis model with heterogeneous information among investors and endogenous determination of interest rates in a noisy rational expectations equilibrium, and examined the implications for equilibriumselection by global games methods.
Abstract: We develop a stylized currency crises model with heterogeneous information among investors andendogenous determination of interest rates in a noisy rational expectations equilibrium. Our modelcaptures three key features of interest rates: the opportunity cost of attacking the currency respondsto the investors' behavior; the domestic interest rate may influence the central bank's preferences fora fixed exchange rate; and the domestic interest rate serves as a public signal which aggregatesprivate information about fundamentals. We explore the payoff and informational channels throughwhich interest rates determine devaluation outcomes, and examine the implications for equilibriumselection by global games methods. Our main conclusion is that multiplicity is not an artifact ofcommon knowledge. In particular, we show that multiplicity emerges robustly, either when adevaluation is triggered by the cost of high domestic interest rates as in Obstfeld (1996), or when adevaluation is triggered by the central bank's loss of foreign reserves as in Obstfeld (1986), providedthat the domestic asset supply is sufficiently elastic in the interest rate and shocks to the domesticbond supply are sufficiently small.Christian HelliwigDepartment of EconomicsUniversity of California, Los AngelesBox 951477Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477Arijit MukherjiUniversity of MinnesotaAleh TsyvinskiDepartment of EconomicsHarvard UniversityLittauer CenterCambridge, MA 02138-3001
TL;DR: This paper proposed a joint valuation framework, in which currency return variance and sovereign default intensity follow a bivariate diffusion with contemporaneous correlation, and showed that default intensity is much more persistent than currency return volatility.
Abstract: Using sovereign CDS spreads and currency option data for Mexico and Brazil, we document that CDS spreads covary with both the currency option implied volatility and the slope of the implied volatility curve in moneyness. We propose a joint valuation framework, in which currency return variance and sovereign default intensity follow a bivariate diffusion with contemporaneous correlation. Estimation shows that default intensity is much more persistent than currency return variance. The market price estimates on the two risk factors also explain the well-documented evidence that historical average default probabilities are lower than those implied from credit spreads.