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2 Accounting for Official Capital Flows |
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2.3 Financial integration |
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2.4 Private versus official creditors |
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10 | (17) |
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2.4.2 Stocks of foreign capital |
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3 Current Account Imbalances: The Role of Official Capital Flows |
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27 | (4) |
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3.2 Implications of reserve currency status |
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3.2.2 Implications of the dual role of the reserve currency |
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32 | (1) |
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3.2.3 Reserve status and balance of payments accounting |
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33 | (1) |
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3.2.4 Reserve currency status in a portfolio balance model |
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33 | (4) |
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3.3 Empirical analysis of the role of official capital for the current account balance |
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3.3.1 Who finances the US current account deficit? A statistical analysis |
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38 | (1) |
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3.3.2 What is the role of official capital in the current account balance? A regression analysis |
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3.3.3 Which factors are major determinants of the US current account balance? |
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3.3.4 How do official and private capital flows interact? |
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3.4 Conclusions and policy implications |
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Appendix 3.A Reserve currency status and balance of payments |
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Appendix 3.B List of variables and data sources |
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63 | (3) |
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Appendix 3.C Sample of countries |
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66 | (1) |
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Appendix 3.D Regression results: Robustness using fixed samples |
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66 | (5) |
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4 Determinants of the Public Budget Balance: The Role of Official Capital Flows |
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72 | (2) |
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4.2 Foreign exchange reserves in historical perspective |
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4.2.1 A short history of reserve currencies |
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75 | (4) |
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4.2.2 A short history of asset classes used as reserves |
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79 | (1) |
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4.3 Implications of reserve currency status |
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4.3.1 Implications for interest rates |
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4.3.2 Implications for the public budget |
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4.4 The role of official capital for the public budget balance - a regression analysis |
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4.4.1 Description of data set and empirical approaches |
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4.4.2 Time-series analysis: US and UK |
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90 | (1) |
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4.4.3 Analysis in a panel data set of industrialized countries |
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4.4.4 Alternative identification: Are reserve currency countries outliers? |
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100 | (7) |
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107 | (1) |
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Appendix 4.A List of variables and data sources |
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109 | (3) |
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Appendix 4.B Sample of countries |
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112 | (1) |
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Appendix 4.C Data sources: Shares of reserve currencies in total foreign exchange reserves |
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112 | (1) |
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Appendix 4.D Regression results: Robustness using fixed sample sizes |
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112 | (7) |
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5 Reserve Accumulation and Financial Crises: From Individual Protection to Systemic Risk |
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5.2 Reserves and crises: The links |
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5.2.1 Reserves and domestic crises |
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5.2.2 Reserves and crises in the reserve currency country |
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5.2.3 Reserves and global crises |
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5.3 The optimal amount of reserves |
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127 | (13) |
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5.3.1 The benchmark model |
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128 | (3) |
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5.3.2 Modeling the behavior of the reserve currency country |
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131 | (1) |
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5.3.3 Optimal reserve level in the presence of local and global crises |
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132 | (2) |
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5.3.4 Optimal reserve level in the presence of a global social planner |
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134 | (1) |
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5.3.5 How can the socially optimal level of reserves be implemented? |
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135 | (1) |
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5.3.6 Robustness analysis |
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5.4 Quantitative implications of the model - a calibration analysis |
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140 | (11) |
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Appendix 5.A Uses of reserve income: Investment vs. consumption |
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Appendix 5.B Probit analysis of financial crises |
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154 | (7) |
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6 Global Aspects of Central Bank Policies |
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6.1 Reform of the international monetary system in light of our findings |
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161 | (3) |
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6.2 Global liquidity and central bank cooperation |
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164 | (4) |
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6.2.1 Global liquidity spillovers |
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164 | (1) |
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6.2.2 The political economy of central bank cooperation |
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165 | (3) |
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6.3 The Target system in the Euro area |
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168 | (3) |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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