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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960627203321

Autore

Kumhof Michael

Titolo

International Currency Portfolios / / Michael Kumhof

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612842702

9781462336609

1462336604

9781452732923

1452732922

9781451871968

1451871961

9781282842700

1282842706

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (37 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

338.49234

Soggetti

Fiscal policy

Open market operations

Banking

Banks and Banking

Central Banks and Their Policies

Central banks

Currencies

Currency

Exchange rates

Financial institutions

Financial Instruments

Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange

Government and the Monetary System

Institutional Investors

Investment & securities

Investments: Stocks

Monetary base

Monetary economics

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Monetary Systems

Money and Monetary Policy



Money supply

Money

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Payment Systems

Pension Funds

Regimes

Standards

Stocks

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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. Conclusions Figures; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 the rates of return of different currency bonds is not correctly described by an arbitrage relationship but instead also depends on outstanding bond stocks. Other findings are: (1) There is a monotonically increasing relationship between domestic interest rates and the portfolio share of domestic currency denominated assets. This relationship is steep at low levels of government debt, and almost flat at high levels of government debt. (2) Optimal private sector foreign currency positions are negative, and their size is decreasing in exchange rate volatility. Under volatile exchange rates large negative aggregate net foreign asset positions can only be rationalized by assuming large public sector borrowing from foreign governments. (3) For a baseline economy with zero net foreign assets, open market sales of domestic government debt lead to valuation gains (losses) when the country as a whole has a short (long) position in foreign currency. (4) A fiscal theory of exchange rate determination is compatible with general equilibrium in a two-country world. (5) Equilibria are determinate when



both fiscal and monetary policy are passive.