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International currency portfolios /

This paper develops a theory of international currency portfolios that holds in general equilibrium, and that is therefore not subject to the criticisms directed at the portfolio balance literature of the 1980s. It shows that, under plausible assumptions about fiscal policy, the relationship between...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kumhof, Michael (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. Research Department
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2009.
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/09/48.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction; II. The Model; A. Uncertainty; 1. Exogenous Processes; 2. Endogenous Processes; B. Households; C. Government; D. Equilibrium and Current Account; E. Interpretation of the Portfolio Share Equations; F. Equilibrium Diffusions; G. Computation of Equilibrium; H. Government Bond Market Interventions; III. The Baseline Economy; A. Calibration; B. Baseline Portfolio Equilibrium; IV. Comparing Alternative Economies; A. Standard Deviation of Monetary Shocks; B. Standard Deviation of Fiscal Shocks; C. Government Debt to GDP Ratios; V. Open Market Operations in Government Debt
  • VI. ConclusionsFigures; 1. Household and Government Balance Sheets; 2. Effects of Money Supply Volatility, phi=phistar=1; 3. Effects of Money Supply Volatility, phi=phistar=0; 4. Effects of Government Spending Volatility, phi=phistar=1; 5. Effects of Government Debt, phi=phistar=1; 6. Home Open Market Operations, phi=phistar=1; 7. Home Open Market Operations, phi=phistar=0; 8. Home Open Market Operations, Large Gross FX Positions; References