Arbeitspapier

Do China and oil exporters influence major currency configurations?

This paper analyses the impact of the shift away from a US dollar focus of systemically important emerging market economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US dollar exchange rate regimes remain pervasive and reserve compositions mostly kept secret, the identification strategy of the paper is to analyse the market impact on major currency pairs of official statements made by EME policy-makers about their exchange rate regime and reserve composition. Developing a novel database for 18 EMEs, we find that such statements not only have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US dollar. The findings suggest that communication hinting at a weakening of EMEs’ US dollar focus contributed substantially to the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar in recent years. Interestingly, EME policy-makers appear to have become more cautious in their communication more recently. Overall, the results underscore the growing systemic importance of EMEs for global exchange rate configurations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 973

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Central Banks and Their Policies
International Finance: General
Foreign Exchange
Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
International Financial Markets
Thema
communication
dollar
emerging economies
euro
exchange rate regime
reserves
Wechselkurs
Währungsreserven
Euro
US-Dollar
Yen
Schwellenländer
Internationales Währungssystem
China
OPEC-Staaten
Schwellenländer

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fratzscher, Marcel
Mehl, Arnaud
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2008

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fratzscher, Marcel
  • Mehl, Arnaud
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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