Download or read book Essays in the Us Dollar Dominated International Financial Market written by Zefeng Chen and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies a special feature about the international financial market. Classical theories often assume that countries are symmetric, but realistically the international financial market is heavily US dollar dominated, which stimulates my interest to study whether this role of the US dollar can resolve numerous puzzles that classical theories are unable to reconcile with empirical facts, as well as to study policy implications. The role of the US in the international market is mainly unique in two aspects. First, the US dollar is the dominant currency used in international trade. Second, the US treasuries are considered as the most widely accepted safe assets. In this dissertation, the first two chapters study the safe asset role, and the third chapter explores the invoicing currency role. The first chapters analyzes the phenomenon called the US 'Exorbitant Privilege', which describes the fact that the US is the only large net borrower country in the world earning a positive net investment income. To rationalize this phenomenon, I propose a different theory about the role of US in the international financial system being a service provider, in contrast to the conventional view of an insurance provider, which predicts the US exorbitant privilege would vanish during the financial crisis, not supported by data. I build a two-country model with financial friction to explain the dynamics of the US external balance sheet and the dollar exchange rate. In the model, world financial intermediaries demand US safe assets for their convenience value, but US intermediaries do not demand foreign safe assets. Under an aggregate symmetric financial shock, the rest of the world buys more safe assets from the US despite a rise in convenience yield, the dollar appreciates, and the US takes advantage by buying more equities from the rest of the world at a low price. I show my mechanism can quantitatively explain the data, while a real shock triggering risk-sharing dynamic cannot. The second chapter is a paper completed with coauthors Shanaka J. Peiris and Sanaa Nadeem from the IMF. We take a perspective from Asian small open economies against external shocks driven by the US dollar. We focus on the banking sectors in those economics because in emerging Asia banks constitute the dominant source of financing consumption and investment, and bank balance sheets comprise large gross FX assets and liabilities. This paper extends the DSGE model of Gertler and Karadi (2011) to incorporate these key features and estimates a panel vector autoregression on ten Asian economies to understand the role of the banking sector in transmitting spillovers from the global financial cycle to small open economies. It also evaluates the effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention (FXI) and other macroeconomic policies in responding to external financing shocks. External financial shocks affect net external liabilities of banks and the exchange rate, leading to changes in credit supply by banks and investment. For example, a capital outflow shock leads to a deprecation that reduces the net worth and intermediation capacity of banks exposed to foreign currency liabilities. In such cases, the exchange rate acts as shock amplifier and sterilized FXI, often deployed by Asian economies, can help cushion the economy.
Download or read book The International Monetary System written by Peter B Kenen and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1993-03-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 50 years, the International Finance Section at Princeton University has encouraged and published work in international finance. This volume, a semicentennial celebration of the Section's essays in international finance, is comprised of 12 essays.
Download or read book The Dollar in World Affairs written by Henry G. Aubrey and published by New York : Published for the Council in Foreign Relations by Harper & Row. This book was released on 1964 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in International Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future Of The Dollar written by Benjamin J Cohen and published by ICFAI Books. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the future of the U.S. dollar as an international currency? The essays collected in this volume comment on critical issues that will influence the outlook for America s greenback. The first two chapters address the emergence of the euro as a pot
Download or read book The International Status of the Dollar written by Fred H. Klopstock and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exchange Rate Theory and Practice written by John F. Bilson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grew out of a National Bureau of Economic Research conference on exchange rates held in Bellagio, Italy, in 1982. In it, the world's most respected international monetary economists discuss three significant new views on the economics of exchange rates - Rudiger Dornbusch's overshooting model, Jacob Frenkel's and Michael Mussa's asset market variants, and Pentti Kouri's current account/portfolio approach. Their papers test these views with evidence from empirical studies and analyze a number of exchange rate policies in use today, including those of the European Monetary System.
Download or read book Essays on International Finance and Currency Economics written by Yida Li and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation consists of three chapters which address questions in international finance and currency economics. Chapter 1 studies the persistence of covered interest rate parity (CIP) deviations. Since global financial crisis (GFC), the CIP deviations have implied a persistent dollar financing premium for banks versus other major currencies. In this paper, I decompose the CIP deviation into three parts: credit spread differential between U.S. and non- U.S. economies, bank’s default premium, and the liquidity needs of global banks. Then I empirically examine whether the data accords with the model predictions, and find that the relative significance of each component in CIP deviation has changed over time, as default premium was the dominant driver around GFC, credit spread differential has been catching up significantly in recent years. In chapter 2, we use a joint model of macroeconomic and term structure dynamics to estimate the term premia and inflation risk premia embedded in the euro area and U.S. sovereign bonds yields. We find that the fall in real risk premia has been the primary driver of declining yields, given ECB assets purchases and forward guidance which lowered the uncertainty over the projected path of short-term rates. In addition, contrary to the Federal Reserve, the ECB’s new strategy review has yet to lift inflation expectations in our sample period with financial markets expecting inflation to remain below 2 percent. We subsequently build a model of the term premia to forecast the euro area 10-year yield curve and find that yields will likely remain depressed over the medium-term under various scenarios. In chapter 3, we examine the economic determinants of the foreign exchange uncertainty with a focus on options prices. FX option prices theoretically contain information over and above that is included in the spot exchange rate markets, as they reflect the market’s perception of the uncertainty surrounding future exchange rate developments. However, little research efforts have been devoted to examine the economic determinants of the FX uncertainty with a focus on options prices. This paper addresses this issue using the option data by characterizing the economic determinants of FX market un- certainty. In a data-rich environment containing a large number of macroeconomic variables, we find that shocks of output and income variables, as well as monetary and credit variables generate significant and consistent impacts on the general risk sentiment and tail risk in the FX market. Shrinkage method of group LASSO also selects macroeconomic fundamentals and financial variables to have consistent impacts on FX market uncertainties. Besides the standard linear analyses, we adopt the neural network method to examine the non-linear association between economic determinants and FX option volatility. The results connect the time-varying FX market risks at both short and long term with macroeconomic fundamentals, and may in addition suggest that financial uncertainty co-movements also exist in currency markets.
Download or read book The Dollar and the Policy performance confidence Mix written by Shafiqul Islam and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Status of the Dollar written by Fred H. Klopstock and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bank Balance Sheets and External Shocks in Asia The Role of FXI MPMs and CFMs written by Zefeng Chen and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In emerging Asia, banks constitute the dominant source of financing consumption and investment, and bank balance sheets comprise large gross FX assets and liabilities. This paper extends the DSGE model of Gertler and Karadi (2011) to incorporate these key features and estimates a panel vector autoregression on ten Asian economies to understand the role of the banking sector in transmitting spillovers from the global financial cycle to small open economies. It also evaluates the effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention (FXI) and other macroeconomic policies in responding to external financing shocks. External financial shocks affect net external liabilities of banks and the exchange rate, leading to changes in credit supply by banks and investment. For example, a capital outflow shock leads to a deprecation that reduces the net worth and intermediation capacity of banks exposed to foreign currency liabilities. In such cases, the exchange rate acts as shock amplifier and sterilized FXI, often deployed by Asian economies, can help cushion the economy. By contrast, with real shocks, the exchange rate serves as a shock absorber, and any FXI that weakens that function can be costly. We also explore the effectiveness of the monetary policy interest rate, macroprudential policies (MPMs) and capital flow management measures (CFMs).
Download or read book Dominant Currency Paradigm A New Model for Small Open Economies written by Camila Casas and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most trade is invoiced in very few currencies. Despite this, the Mundell-Fleming benchmark and its variants focus on pricing in the producer’s currency or in local currency. We model instead a ‘dominant currency paradigm’ for small open economies characterized by three features: pricing in a dominant currency; pricing complementarities, and imported input use in production. Under this paradigm: (a) the terms-of-trade is stable; (b) dominant currency exchange rate pass-through into export and import prices is high regardless of destination or origin of goods; (c) exchange rate pass-through of non-dominant currencies is small; (d) expenditure switching occurs mostly via imports, driven by the dollar exchange rate while exports respond weakly, if at all; (e) strengthening of the dominant currency relative to non-dominant ones can negatively impact global trade; (f) optimal monetary policy targets deviations from the law of one price arising from dominant currency fluctuations, in addition to the inflation and output gap. Using data from Colombia we document strong support for the dominant currency paradigm.
Download or read book The Euro and the Dollar written by Robert N. McCauley and published by International Finan Niversity. This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Euro dollar Market an Interpretation written by Alexander K. Swoboda and published by Princeton, N.J. : International Finance Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University. This book was released on 1968 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bretton Woods Debates written by Raymond Frech Mikesell and published by Internat Niversit. This book was released on 1994 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Japanese Yen as an International Currency written by Mr.George S. Tavlas and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of the Japanese yen as an international currency is assessed. It is found that the determinants of international-currency use imply some increase for the yen’s use in international finance; however, the implications for the yen’s use in international trade are mixed. It is also shown that, despite Japan’s emergence as the world’s largest net creditor nation, Japan’s capital outflows have not significantly facilitated the yen’s internationalization. Data are presented showing that, although the yen’s use as an international currency has increased, it is still rather modest. Wider use of the yen as a regional currency in Asia has occurred, though a “yen-zone” does not appear to be emerging.
Download or read book The World Monetary System written by Michael Posner and published by Princeton, N.J. : International Finance Section, Princeton University. This book was released on 1972 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
