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| Other authors / contributors: | Barrett, Philip, author.
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| ISBN: | 1484336526
1484335465
9781484335468
9781484336526
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| Notes: | Print version record.
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| Summary: | Most countries hold large gross asset positions, lending in domestic currency and borrowing in foreign. Thus, their balance sheets are exposed to nominal exchange rates. We argue that when asset markets are incomplete, nominal exchange rate exposure allows countries to partially insure against shocks that move real exchange rates. We demonstrate that asset market incompleteness can simultaneously generate realistic gross asset positions and resolve the Backus-Smith puzzle: that relative consumptions and real exchange rates correlate negatively. We also show that local perturbation methods that use stabilizing endogenous discount factors are inaccurate when average and steady state interest rates differ. To address this, we develop a novel global solution method to accurately solve the model.
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| Other form: | Print version: Adams, Jonathan J. Why are Countries' Asset Portfolios Exposed to Nominal Exchange Rates? Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, ©2017 9781484335468
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| Standard no.: | 10.5089/9781484335468.001
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