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    Exploring the implications of official dollarization on macroeconomic volatility

    Global Development Network, 2002
    Does dollarization really facilitate financial integration and a better performance of the domestic banking system?
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    PPP strikes back: aggregation and the real exchange rate

    International Monetary Fund, 2003
    This paper presents the principal of absolute purchasing power parity (PPP) which states that real exchange rates should be constant and equal to one or, expressed in relative terms, changes in the real exchange rate should be arbitraged away.
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    Price,exchange rate volatility and Nigeria's agricultural trade flows: a dynamic analysis.

    African Economic Research Consortium, 1999
    The overall objective of the study is to determine empirically the dynamic effects of exchange rate fluctuations on Nigerian agricultural export markets and to examine the relevance of exchange rate risk in agricultural trade flows.The results of the paper are as follows: Exchange rate volatility has a negative effect on agricultural exports, while price volatility has a positive effect
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    Liberalization of the foreign exchange market in Kenya and short-term capital flows problem

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2001
    The main objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between real exchange rate movements and the real interest rate differential, on the one hand, and the impact of short-term (speculative) private capital flows, money supply and fiscal deficit on the real exchange rate, on the other.The paper finds the following: The interest rate differential will widen with real exchange
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    The parallel foreign exchange market and macroeconomic performance in Ethiopia

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2001
    This paper looks into the changes of the parallel premium in relation to the movements of macroeconomic variables.
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    A Var analysis of exchange market pressure: a case study for the MENA region

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000
    Recent currency crises in Asia and Latin America have once again raised the question of how policymakers can successfully defend exchange rates.In a managed exchange rate regime, exchange rate pressure can be translated into nominal devaluation and/or loss in international reserves.
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    Searching for an appropriate exchange rate regime

    Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, 2001
    This paper surveys the debates on which exchange rate is most suitable for emerging market economies.Most East Asian economies prior to the crisis followed a soft peg exchange rate system.
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    Misalignment of the baht, trade imbalances and the crisis in Thailand

    Centre for International Economic Studies, School of Economics of the University of Adelaide, 2000
    This paper examines Thailands exchange rate policies over a twenty year period from 1981 to 1999, in particular the level of misalignment of the exchange rate prior to the crisis, and its consequent effect on the trade balance with the US and Japan.The paper finds the following:Moderate misalignments for the real effective exchange rate for the bilateral exchange rate against the US dol
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    Exchange rate and domestic prices in the GCC countries

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2001
    The large amount of imports to GCC countries mean that domestic prices are more sensitive to changes in import prices than to domestic economic conditions.
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    Exchange rate regimes and policies in Asia (CEPII)

    Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 1999
    The exchange rate regimes in Asian countries are not straightforward. Officially, only Hong Kong pegs its currency to the USD, whereas the exchange rate regimes of most countries are « managed floats », i.e. flexible exchange rates with frequent, official interventions. Thus, the official regimes are rather vague, and they include a wide range of de facto policies.

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