... orthodoxy Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus ... solved and responses given Quarters of the term premium and the other variables of the model to economic shocks can be computed Figures and show the impulse response functions of the term premium and ... any case, the factors underlying reduced macro volatility likely also affected the behavior of the term structure of interest rates, and especially the size and dynamics of risk premiums Therefore,...
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... 1933 they found it to be close to a random walk Mankiw et al also examined the relation between three- and six-month rates before and after the founding of the Fed The two rates moved together ... Cook and Hahn (1989)) The standard test of the expectations theory in these papers is to regress the change in the 3-month rate from period to period t + on the difference between the 6-month and ... results rests on the assumption tha.t movements in the funds rate target caused movements in other rates and not the reverse They defend their assumption as follows: The Desk changed the funds rate...
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Interest Rates and The Credit Crunch: New Formulas and Market Models potx
... similar to those in the classic LMM The main difference is given by the drift rates that depend on the relevant forward rates for the discount curve, rather then the other FRA rates in the considered ... forward and swap measures Hints on the derivation of pricing formulas for caps and swaptions are then provided in the specific case of the Wu and Zhang (2006) model Section concludes the article These ... each other, either because related to the same time interval or because implied by other market quotes Rates related to the same time interval are, for instance, deposit and OIS rates with the...
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Zero Interest Rates and the Fall in U.S. Bank Lending pdf
... exporters and importers and households increase Surprisingly, retail bank credit in the both the U.S and Europe is still declining The sharp weakening of the dollar against the euro and other important ... entity: the U.S Federal Reserve Bank And because the world is still largely on a dollar standard, what the Fed does strongly influences other central banks around the world The key point is that the ... businesses, especially small and medium sized, languished despite the gargantuan efforts of the Fed to expand the size of the banking system Why was it a mistake for the Fed to flood the system with so...
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Dual-track interest rates and the conduct of monetary policy in China potx
... the RRR, which means the higher the RRR, the less the funding available from the banks and the higher the demand for funding in the nonregulated market, and thus, the higher the market rate Similarly, ... both the deposit-rate ceiling and the lending-rate floor are binding, the market rate in the deposit market is the ceiling rdb , and the market rate in the lending market is the floor rlb Therefore, ... with the predictions of the theoretical models and the calibration: changes in regulated interest rates and other policy instruments have predictable effects on market interest rates For the People’s...
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International Financial Market and Korean Economy Introduction to exchange rates and the foreign exchange market
... the euro The euro rates begin in 1999 when the currency was introduced The yen, pound, and Canadian dollar all float against the U.S dollar The pound and yen float against the euro The Danish ... Rates The chart shows the U.S spot and three-month forward exchange rates for the euro in dollars per euro in the year 2008 The spot and forward rates closely track each other 3 The Market for Foreign ... figure shows exchange rates of three currencies against the U.S dollar and three against the euro The euro rates begin in 1999 when the currency was introduced The yen, pound, and Canadian dollar...
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Introduction to exchange rates and the Foreign Exchange Market
... vary e Using the information from (d), what has happened to the value of the U.S dollar relative to the British pound and the euro? Note: the H.10 release quotes these exchange rates as U.S dollars ... Britain and 4.04% in the Netherlands The (one-year) forward euro–pound exchange rate is 1.575 euros per pound and the spot rate is 1.5 euros per pound Answer the following questions, using the exact ... Exchange Rates I: The Monetary Approach in the Long Run In the previous table: • PPP holds only when the real exchange rate qUS/F ϭ This implies that the baskets in the home country and the United...
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International Capital Flows and Boom-Bust Cycles in the Asia Pacific Region +
... that the effects of CAP shocks on CUR and RGDP are invariant to the ordering between CUR and RGDP On the other hand, capital flows might affect CUR and RGDP within a quarter, and the CUR and RGDP ... consumption and investment in four different periods - the whole period, the 1980s, and the 1990s with and without the Asian crisis period The output volatility is relatively low with a standard deviation ... to the increase in consumption and investment because the current account negatively responds to capital flow shocks (Figures and 2) The third and the fourth rows report the responses of the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:27
Tài liệu Central bank rates, market rates and retail bank rates in the euro area in the context of the recent crisis docx
... transmission over the long term, the coefficients θ and δ measure the shortterm dynamic, and u are the error terms The term in the parentheses is the cointegration vector and represents the long-term ... rate is the most relevant to the formation of retail interest rates The short-term market interest rates are OIS and Euribor The long-term market interest rates are the swap rate and the government ... explains the low level of the synthetic interest rate The moderate increase in Belgian interest rates since the start of 2010 corroborates the conclusion cited above, i.e that the repercussions of the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu The Benefits of Bank Deposit Rate Ceilings: New Evidence on Bank Rates and Risk in the 1920s (p. 2) docx
... Deposit Rates and Risk The critical variables for this study are deposit rates But for which deposits are the rates on these reports? The old table of rates paid identifies only the amount found these ... of the U.S government to earning assets • Interest received to earning assets The presumption was and still is—that the higher these ratios, the lower the quality of the bank's assets and so the ... liquid assets are the sum of the first four items under assets in the report of condition: cash on hand, funds due from the Federal Reserve Bank, exchanges and demand cash items, and other items in...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945 docx
... 0.01% Source: Piketty and Saez Note: The vertical axis is the share of total income The observed relationship between the top tax rates and the income share of the top 0.1% and the top 0.1% are displayed ... taxes but also by the quantity and quality of the labor force The indicators of the quantity and quality of the labor force include the change in the proportion of the population in their prime-age ... share of the top 0.1% (the top solid line in the figure) and the top 0.01% (the lower dashed line) since 1945.32 Under both definitions of the top of the income distribution (i.e., the rich), the...
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Tài liệu DEVELOPMENTS KEY ECONOMIC AND PROSPECTS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION 2008 pdf
... ESCAP is the regional development arm of the United Nations and serves as the main economic and social development centre for the United Nations in Asia and the Pacific Its mandate is to ... DEVELOPMENTS AND PROSPECTS IN THE ASIA -PACIFIC REGION 2008 United Nations ESCAP New York, 2007 ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMIS SION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC i KEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS AND PROSPECTS IN THE ... arable land has been lost to other uses such as manufacturing and construction The country has lost million hectares, or 6.6 per cent of its arable land, in the past decade.4 Furthermore, the risk...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20
World Vision’s Little Book of Maternal and Child Health in the Asia Pacific pdf
... private and public collaboration on research, improvement and promotion of healthier living, in tandem with facilities and resources to improve the health of mothers and children in the Asia Pacific s ... common in these young mothers and their babies Almost all who visit this clinic are estate labourers They have no knowledge about nutrition They get through the day on plain tea and roti And now ... governments and donors in the Asia Pacific to recognise the way forward on sustainable, equitable health solutions to protect mothers and their children It is at once a humanitarian duty and an investment...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20
Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Looking at the Health Sector Response in the Asia-Pacific Region doc
... ASEAN and the Pacific Islands Forum) develop mechanisms to track progress on GBV and SRHR; and • NGOs act as watchdogs and advocate for fulfilling the Cairo agenda and MDG (a & b) targets The last ... (BPfA, 1995), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW, 1979) and the Millennium Declaration (2000) In the Pacific region, the Pacific Islands Forum ... all of these are potentially very limiting to their life choices.11 These can severely curtail educational and employment opportunities and have long-term adverse impact on their own and their...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20
Enhancing Elderly Care Services in Asia and the Pacific pptx
... diagnostic and therapeutic care for older persons There is a lack of coordination among organizations including government agencies, academia and NGOs, in the provision and assessment of health and ... shoulder the burden of caring for the elderly even if they are unable to provide adequate care E Knowledge gaps on ageing There is a lack of standardized data collection on the situation and needs ... interpretations thereof) and some traditional practices II Recommendations To address the gaps and challenges identified above, the Forum recommended the following: A National policy and action Governments...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
INTEREST RATES AND EXCHANGE RATES - WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP? pptx
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21
Towards Inclusive Financial Development for Achieving the MDGs in Asia and the Pacific pptx
... development and per capita income in Asia and the Pacific ………………… The relationship between credit market based measure of financial development and poverty rates in Asia and the Pacific ……………………… The ... Towards inclusive financial development for achieving the MDGs in Asia and the Pacific Figure The relationship between equity market based measure of financial development and poverty rates in Asia and the Pacific 70 NPL 60 Poverty ... weight of children) in Asia and the Pacific …………… The relationship between inclusive financial development and under mortality rate in Asia and the Pacific …………………………………………… The relationship between...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
THE KEY INDICATORS for Asia and the Pacific 2012 pdf
... ŝŶĨĞĐƟŽŶ͘ ͻ The incidence and prevalence rates of tuberculosis and the death rates associated with tuberculosis in most countries in the region have declined However, the Marshall Islands and some ... to the Asia and Pacific region The terms “cities” and “urban population” are as defined by the UN (2012) In this chapter, the terms “city” and “urban” are used interchangeably For clarity, the ... ŶǀŝƌŽŶŵĞŶƚ͖ ĂŶĚ 'ŽǀĞƌŶŵĞŶƚ and Governance Each theme is further divided into subtopics The tables contain indicators related to a subtopic The MDGs and themes in Parts II and III start with a brief...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20