Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose, Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
Prices of most agricultural and mineral commodities rose strongly in the last decade, peaking sharply in 2008. Popular explanations included strong global growth (especially from China and India),...
A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade (2008)
Thirty-four recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 754 point estimates of this effect. This paper uses meta-analysis to combine, explain, and to...
Exchange Rate Regimes and Stability: Where Do We Stand? (2008)
One of the luxuries of academic life is the ability to ignore problems that cannot be easily solved. Since I get to choose the focus of my research, I try to choose interesting and important...
JEL Classification Number: F31. (2007)
Andrew Rose, Barry Eichengreen, Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K. Rose, Charles Wyplosz, Charles Wyplosz
Speculative attacks tend to be temporally correlated; that is, currency crises appear to pass “contagiously ” from one country to another. The paper provides a survey of the theoretical...
the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade: A MetaAnalysis (2004)
Twenty-four recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 443 point estimates of the effect. This paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state...
Do we really know that the WTO increases trade (2004)
I Thank Kyle Bagwell, Richard Baldwin, Barry Eichengreen, Rob Feenstra, Jeff Frankel, Hans Genberg, ...
Harrison for data assistance; and the HKMA, the MAS and Princeton University for hospitality and helpful seminar feedback. Asher Isaac and an EASE 13 paper by David Li and Changqi Wu inspired me. The...
Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade? (2003)
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/03_15.pdf
Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade? (2003)
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/03_15.pdf
Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade? (2003)
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/03_15.pdf
Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality (2003)
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
We seek to contribute to the debate over globalization and the environment by asking: What is the effect of trade on a country’s environment, for a given level of GDP? We take specific account of...
One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade (2002)
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/02_18.pdf
One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade (2002)
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/02_18.pdf
One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade (2002)
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/02_18.pdf
given to the source. Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality (2002)
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose, Edward Parson, Rob Stavins, M. Scott Taylor, Geoffrey Williamson, ...
International Economics seminars, all three at Harvard. Frankel would also like to acknowledge support from the Savitz Family Fund for Environmental and Natural Resource Policy. The views expressed...
May Draft Comments, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert C. Feenstra, Andrew K. Rose, Andrew K. Rose
We develop a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using dis-aggregated American imports data. We find strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent with...
Using The Gravity Equation To Differentiate Among Alternative Theories Of Trade (1999)
James A. Markusen, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert C. Feenstra, Professor James, R. Markusen, Andrew K. Rose, ...
One of the most enduring results of empirical international economics is that a simple gravity equation explains a great deal about the data on bilateral trade flows. This is consistent with several...
James A. Markusen, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert C. Feenstra, Professor James, R. Markusen, Andrew K. Rose, ...
This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most...
Is EMU more justifiable ex post than ex ante?, European Economic Review 41 (1997)
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose, Andrew K. Rose
Yes. A country’s suitability for EMU entry depends on the intensity of trade with EMU members, and the extent to which its business cycles are correlated with those of other members. But both...
JEL Classification Number: F34. (1997)
Barry Eichengreen, Andrew Rose, Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K. Rose
We analyze banking crises using a panel of macroeconomic and financial data for more than one hundred developing countries from 1975 through 1992. We find that banking crises in emerging markets are...
Empirical Research on Nominal Exchange Rates (1995)
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose, Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
We survey the empirical literature on floating nominal exchange rates over the past decade. Exchange rates are difficult to forecast at short- to medium-term horizons. There is a bit of explanatory...
Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect
I search for a 'scale' effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using...
Explaining Forward Exchange Bias .... Intra-day
Lyons, Richard K, Rose, Andrew K
Intra-day interest rates are zero. Consequently, a foreign exchange dealer can short a vulnerable currency in the morning, close this position in the afternoon, and never face an interest cost. This...
Eichengreen, Barry, Rose, Andrew K, Wyplosz, Charles
This paper presents an empirical analysis of speculative attacks on pegged exchange rates in 22 countries between 1967 and 1992. We define speculative attacks or crises as large movements in exchange...
Is There a Safe Passage to EMU? Evidence on Capital Controls and a Proposal
Eichengreen, Barry, Rose, Andrew K, Wyplosz, Charles
This paper provides evidence on the effects of capital controls. We show that controls have been associated with significant differences in macroeconomic behaviour, especially in monetary policy....
The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade: Embassies as Export Promotion
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing...
Offshore financial centers: parasites or symbionts?
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper analyzes the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax havens and money launderers, they encourage bad behavior in source countries....
If one ranks cities by population, the rank of a city is inversely related to its size, a well-documented phenomenon known as Zipf's Law. Further, the growth rate of a city's population is...
Understanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation: The Role of Differentiating Goods
Feenstra, Robert, Markusen, James R., Rose, Andrew K
This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most...
Empirical research on nominal exchange rates
Frankel, Jeffrey A., Rose, Andrew K., G. M. Grossman, K. Rogoff
Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic
Darvas, Zsolt, Rose, Andrew K, Szapáry, György
Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is,...
Offshore Financial Centers: Parasites or Symbionts?
This paper analyzes the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax havens and money launderers, they encourage bad behavior in source countries....
Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: Exploiting Idiosyncratic Risk
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
This paper develops a simple but general methodology to estimate the expected intertemporal marginal rate of substitution or "EMRS", using only data on asset prices and returns. Our empirical...
Quantitative Goals for Monetary Policy
Antonio Fatas, Ilian Mihov, Andrew K. Rose
We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation...
Financial Integration: A New Methodology And An Illustration
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
This paper develops a simple methodology to test for asset integration, and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free...
PUTTING THINGS IN ORDER: PATTERNS OF TRADE DYNAMICS AND GROWTH
Robert C. Feenstra, Andrew K. Rose
We develop a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using dis-aggregated American imports data. We find strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent with...
Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic
Zsolt Darvas, Andrew K. Rose, György Szapáry
Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is,...
Does the WTO Make Trade More Stable?
I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has increased the stability and predictability of...
A NEW APPROACH TO ASSET INTEGRATION: METHODOLOGY AND MYSTERY
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
This paper develops a new methodology to test financial market integration. Our technique is based on an intertemporal asset-pricing model, and relies on estimating and comparing expected discount...
A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Bretton Woods, Reversed
A stable international monetary system has emerged since the early 1990s. A large number of industrial and a growing number of developing countries now have domestic inflation targets administered by...
Uncovered Interest Parity in Crisis: The Interest Rate Defense in the 1990s
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
Interest rate policy , Exchange rates , Financial crisis , Developed countries , Developing countries , Economic models ,
Offshore Financial Centres: Parasites or Symbionts?
This paper analyses the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax havens and money launderers, they encourage bad behaviour in source countries....
If one ranks cities by population, the rank of a city is inversely related to its size, a well-documented phenomenon known as Zipf's Law. Further, the growth rate of a city's population is...
Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic
Zsolt Darvas, Andrew K. Rose, György Szapáry
Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is,...
Checking Out: Exits from Currency Unions
This paper studies the characteristics of departures from monetary unions. During the post-war period, almost seventy distinct countries or territories have left a currency union, while over sixty...
Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K. Rose, Charles Wyplosz
This paper presents an empirical analysis of speculative attacks on pegged exchange rates in 22 countries between 1967 and 1992. We define speculative attacks or crises as large movements in exchange...
Exchange rate instability: determinants and predictability
Richard A. Meese, Andrew K. Rose
The paper is concerned with exchange rate instability, by which we mean large changes in exchange rates. The paper has two objectives. First, we search for plausible determinants of currency crashes....
Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate
Andrew K. Rose, Saktiandi Supaat
We use a quinquennial data set covering 87 countries between 1975 and 2005 to investigate the relationship between fertility and the real effective exchange rate. Theoretically a country experiencing...
Eichengreen, Barry, Rose, Andrew K, Wyplosz, Charles
This paper is concerned with the fact that the incidence of speculative attacks tend to be temporally correlated; that is, currency crises appear to pass ‘contagiously’ from one country to...
Staying Afloat When the Wind Shifts: External Factors and Emerging-Market Banking Crises
Eichengreen, Barry, Rose, Andrew K
We analyse banking crises using a panel of macroeconomic and financial data for more than 100 developing countries from 1975 through 1992. We find that banking crises in emerging markets are strongly...
Well-Being in the Small and in the Large
Is it better to live in a big county than a small country? In this paper I examine whether economic and social conditions vary systematically with the population of a country. Economics provides a...
Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic
Zsolt Darvas, Andrew K. Rose, György Szapáry
Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is,...
A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Inflation Targeting is Bretton Woods, Reversed
A stable international monetary system has emerged since the early 1990s. A large number of industrial and a growing number of developing countries now have domestic inflation targets administered by...
Job Switching and Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Labor Market
George A. Akerlof, Andrew K. Rose, Janet L. Yellen
macroeconomics, Job Switching, Job Satisfaction, U.S. Labor Market
East Germany in from the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union
George A. Akerlof, Andrew K. Rose, Janet L. Yellen, Helga Hessenius
macroeconomics, East Germany, currency union
One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade
IMF; sovereignty; trade policy
European exchange rate credibility before the fall: the case of sterling
European Monetary System (Organization) ; Foreign exchange rates
Dynamic measures of competitiveness: are the geese still flying in formation?
Competition ; Japan ; International trade ; East Asia
How do currency crises spread?
Foreign exchange rates ; Asia ; Mexico ; International trade ; European Monetary System (Organization) ; Financial crises - Asia ; Financial crises - Mexico
Is there a case for an Asian Monetary Fund?
Money ; Asia ; Monetary policy ; East Asia
Are exchange rates macroeconomic phenomena?
This paper argues that macroeconomic variables are relatively unimportant determinants of exchange rates. The argument hinges on the fact that bilateral exchange rate volatility differs widely across...
Does a currency union affect trade? the time series evidence
Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? We answer this question using a large annual panel data set covering 217 countries from 1948 through 1997. During this sample a large number...
A gravity model of sovereign lending: trade, default and credit
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
One reason why countries service their external debts is the fear that default might lead to shrinkage of international trade. If so, then creditors should systematically lend more to countries with...
Offshore financial centers: parasites or symbionts?
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper analyzes the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax havens and money launderers, they encourage bad behavior in source countries....
Non-economic engagement and international exchange: the case of environmental treaties
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
We examine the role of non-economic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as...
Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties
We examine the role of non-economic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as...
The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria.
Frankel, Jeffrey A, Rose, Andrew K
A country's suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the currency...
After the Deluge: Do Fixed Exchange Rates Allow Inter-temporal Volatility Tradeoffs?
This paper addresses the issue of whether regimes of fixed exchange rates are a mechanism for shifting volatility inter-temporally. Using a panel of data covering twenty industrialized countries from...
Currency Unions and International Integration.
Rose, Andrew K, Engel, Charles
This paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc Zone). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them to...
A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade *
Thirty-four recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 754 point estimates of this effect. This paper uses meta-analysis to combine, explain, and to...
Currency unions and trade: the effect is large
The impact of a common currency on trade can be grossly mismeasured if countries that belong to currency unions are systematically different from those that do not, and if the relationship between...
Expected and Predicted Realignments: The FF/DM Exchange Rate during the EMS, 1979-93.
Rose, Andrew K, Svensson, Lars E O
Expected rates of devaluation for the French franc/Deutsche mark exchange rate during the EMS are estimated using the 'drift adjustment' method. Exchange rates within the band display strong mean...
The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade: Embassies as Export Promotion
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing...
Explaining Forward Exchange Bias . . . Intraday.
Lyons, Richard K, Rose, Andrew K
Intraday interest rates are zero. Consequently, a foreign exchange dealer can short a vulnerable currency in the morning, close this position in the afternoon, and never face an interest cost. This...
Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes
We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is...
East Germany in from the Cold: The Economic Aftermath of Currency Union
George A. Akerlof, Andrew K. Rose, Janet L. Yellen, Helga Hessenius
macroeconomics, East Germany, currency union
Job Switching and Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Labor Market
George A. Akerlof, Andrew K. Rose, Janet L. Yellen
macroeconomics, Job Switching, Job Satisfaction, U.S. Labor Market
Uncovered Interest Parity in Crisis
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
This paper tests for uncovered interest parity (UIP) using daily data for 23 developing and developed countries during the crisis-strewn 1990s. We find that UIP works better on average in the 1990s...
Quantitative Goals for Monetary Policy
ANTONIO FATÁS, ILIAN MIHOV, ANDREW K. ROSE
We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit "de jure" quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation...
Using the gravity equation to differentiate among alternative theories of trade
Robert C. Feenstra, James R. Markusen, Andrew K. Rose
The simple gravity equation explains a great deal about the data on bilateral trade flows and is consistent with several theoretical models of trade. We argue that alternative theories nevertheless...
Job Switching and Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Labor Market
George A. Akerlof, Andrew K. Rose, Janet L. Yellen
macroeconomics, Job Switching, Job Satisfaction, U.S. Labor Market
Quantitative goals for monetary policy.
Antonio Fatás, Ilian Mihov, Andrew K. Rose
We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms - exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation...
Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate
Rose, Andrew K, Supaat, Saktiandi
We use a quinquennial data set covering 87 countries between 1975 and 2005 to investigate the relationship between fertility and the real effective exchange rate. Theoretically a country experiencing...
International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility
This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In particular, we show that countries that are further from major locations of...
Quantitative Goals for Monetary Policy
Fatás, Antonio, Mihov, Ilian, Rose, Andrew K
We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation...
Why Has Trade Grown Faster than Income?
Trade of the OECD countries has grown faster than income during the postwar period. This paper tests a number of different hypotheses for the observed growth in the trade/income ratio. For small open...
Well-Being in the Small and in the Large
Is it better to live in a big country than a small one? In this paper, I examine whether economic and social conditions vary systematically with the population of a country. Economics provides a...
Why so Glum? The Meese-Rogoff Methodology Meets the Stock Market
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
This paper applies the Meese-Rogoff (1983a) methodology to the stock market. We compare the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of various time-series and fundamentals-based models of aggregate stock...
International financial remoteness and macroeconomic volatility
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In particular, we show that countries that are further from major locations of...
An Empirical Assessment of Non-linearities in Models of Exchange Rate Determination.
Meese, Richard A, Rose, Andrew K
This paper examines the empirical relation between nominal exchange rates and macroeconomic fundamentals for five major OECD countries between 1974 and 1987. Five theoretical models of exchange rate...
Do We Really Know That the WTO Increases Trade?
This paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements - the World Trade Organization (WTO), its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and...
Expected and Predicted Realignments: The FF/DM Exchange Rate During the EMS
Rose, Andrew K, Svensson, Lars E O
An empirical model of time-varying realignment in an exchange rate target zone is developed. Expected rates of devaluation are estimated as the difference between interest rate differentials and...
A Panel Project on Purchasing Power Parity: Mean Reversion Within and Between Countries
Frankel, Jeffrey A, Rose, Andrew K
Previous time-series studies have shown evidence of mean-reversion in real exchange rates. Deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) appear to have half-lives of approximately four years. The...
Uncovered Interest Parity in Crisis: The Interest Rate Defence in the 1990s
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
This Paper tests for uncovered interest parity (UIP) using daily data for twenty-three developing and developed countries through the crisis-strewn 1990s. We find that UIP works better on average in...
A Gravity Model of International Lending: Trade, Default and Credit
One reason why countries service their external debts is the fear that default might lead to shrinkage of international trade. If so, then creditors should systematically lend more to countries with...
Noise trading and exchange rate regimes
Both the literature and new empirical evidence show that exchange rate regimes differ primarily by the noisiness of the exchange rate, not by measurable macroeconomic fundamentals. This motivates a...
Contagion and trade: why are currency crises regional?
Currency crises tend to be regional; they affect countries in geographic proximity. This suggests that patterns of international trade are important in understanding how currency crises spread, above...
Tariffs and the macroeconomy: evidence from the USA
Andrew K. Rose, Jonathan D. Ostry
Tariff ; Balance of trade ; Foreign exchange rates
An empirical assessment of non-linearities in models of exchange rate determination
Richard A. Meese, Andrew K. Rose
Foreign exchange rates
Why hasn't trade grown faster than income? Inter-industry trade over the past century
Joseph E. Gagnon, Andrew K. Rose
Income ; International trade
Is the EMS the perfect fix? An empirical exploration of exchange rate target zones
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose, Donald J. Mathieson
European Economic Community ; Foreign exchange rates
Expected and predicted realignments: the FF/DM exchange rate during the EMS
Andrew K. Rose, Lars E.O. Svensson
European Monetary System (Organization) ; Foreign exchange rates
How pervasive is the product cycle? The empirical dynamics of American and Japanese trade flows
Joseph E. Gagnon, Andrew K. Rose
International trade ; Japan
Currency crashes in emerging markets: an empirical treatment
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971 through 1992 to characterize currency crashes. We define a currency crash as a large change of the nominal exchange...
Exchange rate instability: determinants and predictability
Richard A. Meese, Andrew K. Rose
Foreign exchange ; Money
One reason countries pay their debts: renegotiation and international trade
This paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors...
Economic Structure and the Decision to Adopt a Common Currency
Frankel, Jeffrey A., Rose, Andrew K.
Everyone studying EMU cites the theory of Optimum Currency Areas: whether a country like Sweden should join the currency union depends on such parameters as the extent of Swedish trade with other EU...
Fixing Exchange Rates: A Virtual Quest for Fundamentals
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
Fixed exchange rates are less volatile than floating rates. The volatility of macroeconomic variables, such as money and output, does not change very much across exchange rate regimes, however. This...
European Exchange Rate Credibility Before the Fall
Rose, Andrew K, Svensson, Lars E O
Realignment expectations which measure exchange rate credibility are analysed for European exchange rates using daily financial data since the inception of the EMS. It is difficult to find...
This paper uses a panel of data from 22 countries between 1967 and 1992 to explore the trade-off between the `Holy Trinity' of fixed exchange rates, independent monetary policy, and capital mobility....
Fixes: Of the Forward Discount Puzzle
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
Regressions of ex-post changes in floating exchange rates on appropriate interest differentials typically imply that the high interest rate currency tends to appreciate - the `forward discount...
After the Deluge: Do Fixed Exchange Rates Allow Inter-temporal Volatility Trade-offs?
This paper addresses the issue of whether regimes of fixed exchange rates are a mechanism for shifting volatility inter-temporally. Using a panel of data covering 20 industrialized countries from...
Currency Crashes in Emerging Markets: Empirical Indicators
Frankel, Jeffrey A, Rose, Andrew K
We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971–92 to characterize currency crashes. We define a currency crash as a large change of the nominal exchange rate that...
The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria
Frankel, Jeffrey A, Rose, Andrew K
A country’s suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity or trade with other potential members of the currency...
Putting Things in Order: Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Macroeconomics
Feenstra, Robert, Rose, Andrew K
This paper develops a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using disaggregated US imports data. It finds strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent...
Understanding Exchange Rate Volatility Without the Contrivance of Macroeconomics
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
Exchange rate regimes differ primarily by the activity of the exchange rate, not observable macroeconomic ‘fundamentals’. Fixed exchange rates are typically stable and floating exchange rates are...
Contagion and Trade: Why are Currency Crises Regional
Currency crises tend to be regional; they affect countries in geographic proximity. This suggests that patterns of international trade are important in understanding how currency crises spread, above...
Noise Trading and Exchange Rate Regimes
Jeanne, Olivier, Rose, Andrew K
Both the literature and new empirical evidence show that exchange rate regimes differ primarily by the noisiness of the exchange rate, not by measurable macroeconomic fundamentals. This motivates a...
One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade
A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years...
An Estimate of the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output
Frankel, Jeffrey A, Rose, Andrew K
Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions stimulate trade; cross-sectional evidence indicates that trade stimulates output. This paper estimates the effect that currency...
Currency Unions and International Integration
Engel, Charles M, Rose, Andrew K
This Paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of...
Do Monetary Handcuffs Restrain Leviathan? Fiscal Policy in Extreme Exchange Rate Regimes
Fatás, Antonio, Rose, Andrew K
This Paper is an empirical study of fiscal policy in countries with extreme monetary regimes. We study members of multilateral currency unions, dollarized countries that officially use the money of...
Does a Currency Union Affect Trade? The Time Series Evidence
Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? We answer this question using a large annual panel data set covering over 230 countries from 1948-97. During this sample over one hundred...
One Reason Countries Pay Their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade
This Paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors...
Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?
This Paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization (WTO), its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and...
Do WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?
This Paper uses 67 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)...
Which International Institutions Promote International Trade?
This Paper estimates the effect on international trade of three multilateral organizations intended to increase trade: 1) the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the Generalized...
A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Common Currencies on International Trade
34 recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 754 point estimates of the effect. This Paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state of...
Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
This Paper develops a simple new methodology to test for asset integration and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal...
Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: Exploiting Idiosyncratic Risk
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
This Paper develops a simple but general methodology to estimate the expected intertemporal marginal rate of substitution or ‘EMRS’, using only data on asset prices and returns. Our empirical...
The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade: Embassies as Export Promotion
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing...
Noise Trading And Exchange Rate Regimes
Olivier Jeanne, Andrew K. Rose
Policy-makers often justify their choice of fixed exchange rate regimes as a shelter against nonfundamental influences in the foreign exchange market. This paper proposes a framework, based on...
Putting Things In Order: Trade Dynamics And Product Cycles
Robert C. Feenstra, Andrew K. Rose
We develop a procedure to rank-order objects using censored panel data sets. We illustrate this by ranking countries and commodities using disaggregated American import data and find evidence that...
Fixes: Of the Forward Discount Puzzle.
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
Regressions of ex post changes in floating exchange rates on appropriate interest differentials typically imply that the high-interest rate currency tends to appreciate, the 'forward discount...
Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
We seek to contribute to the debate over globalization and the environment by asking: What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? We take specific account of the...
Uncovered Interest Parity in Crisis
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
This paper tests for uncovered interest parity (UIP) using daily data for 23 developing and developed countries during the crisis-strewn 1990s. We find that UIP works better on average in the 1990s...
An Empirical Exploration of Exchange Rate Target-Zones
Robert P. Flood, Donald J. Mathieson, Andrew K. Rose
Exchange rates , Target zones , European Monetary System , Interest rates , Economic models ,
Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
This paper develops a simple methodology to test for asset integration, and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free...
Dynamic Persistence of Industry Trade Balances: How Pervasive Is the Product Cycle?
Gagnon, Joseph E, Rose, Andrew K
This paper looks for dynamic patterns in international trade flows using comprehensive multilateral data for six countries, disaggregated to the four-digit SITC level. The purpose of the paper is to...
Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes
We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is...
Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
We examine the role of non-economic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as...
An Estimate of the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade and Income
Frankel, Jeffrey, Rose, Andrew K.
Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions and currency boards stimulate trade; cross-sectional evidence indicates that trade stimulates income. This paper estimates the...
Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality
Frankel, Jeffrey, Rose, Andrew K.
We seek to contribute to the debate over globalization and the environment by asking: What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? We take specific account of the...
International Financial Remoteness and Macroeconomic Volatility
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In particular, we show that countries that are further from major locations of...
One Reason Countries Pay Their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade
This paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors...
Do We Really KNow that the WTO Increases Trade?
This paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization (WTO), its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and...
George A. Akerlof, Andrew K. Rose, Janet L. Yellen
This paper explains upward job mobility and observed patterns of unemployment by skill as an economy recovers from a recession. Skilled unemployment is due to rational waiting by workers looking for...
An Empirical Exploration of Exchange Rate Target-Zones
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose, Donald J. Mathieson
In the context of a flexible-price monetary exchange rate model and the assumption of uncovered interest parity, we obtain a measure of the fundamental determinant of exchange rates. Daily data for...
How Pervasive is the Product Cycle? The Empirical Dynamics of American and Japanese Trade Flows
Joseph E. Gagnon, Andrew K. Rose
This paper looks for dynamic patterns in international trade flows using comprehensive multilateral American and Japanese data disaggregated to the four-digit SITC level. Little evidence is found of...
European Exchange Rate Credibility Before the Fall
Andrew K. Rose, Lars E.O. Svensson
Realignment expectations which measure exchange rate credibility are analyzed for European exchange rates, using daily financial data since the inception of the EMS. It is difficult to find...
Fixing Exchange Rates: A Virtual Quest for Fundamentals
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
Fixed exchange rates are less volatile than floating rates. But the volatility of macroeconomic variables such as money and output does not change very much across exchange rate regimes. This...
This paper uses a panel of data from twenty-two countries between 1967 and 1992 to explore the tradeoff between the 'Holy Trinity' of fixed exchange rates, independent monetary policy, and capital...
A Survey of Empirical Research on Nominal Exchange Rates
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
We survey the empirical literature on floating nominal exchange rates over the past decade. Exchange rates are difficult to forecast at short- to medium-term horizons. There is a bit of explanatory...
Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K. Rose, Charles Wyplosz
This paper presents an empirical analysis of speculative attacks on pegged exchange rates in 22 countries between 1967 and 1992. We define speculative attacks or crises as large movements in exchange...
Fixes: Of The Forward Discount Puzzle
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
Regressions of ex post changes in floating exchange rates on appropriate interest differentials typically imply that the high- interest rate currency tends to appreciate, the `forward discount...
Explaining Forward Exchange Bias..Intraday
Richard K. Lyons, Andrew K. Rose
Intraday interest rates are zero. Consequently, a foreign exchange dealer can short a vulnerable currency in the morning, close this position in the afternoon, and never face an interest cost. This...
A Panel Project on Purchasing Power Parity: Mean Reversion Within and Between Countries
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
Previous time-series studies have shown evidence of mean- reversion in real exchange rates. Deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) appear to have half-lives of approximately four years....
After the Deluge: Do Fixed Exchange Rates Allow Inter-Temporal Volatility Tradeoffs?
This paper addresses the issue of whether regimes of fixed exchange rates are a mechanism for shifting volatility inter- temporally. Using a panel of data covering twenty industrialized countries...
Expected and Predicted Realignments: The FF/DM Exchange Rate During the EMS
Andrew K. Rose, Lars E.O. Svensson
An empirical model of time-varying realignment risk in an exchange rate target zone is developed. Expected rates of devaluation are estimated as the difference between interest race differentials and...
Currency Crashes in Emerging Markets: Empirical Indicators
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971 through 1992 to characterize currency crashes. We define a currency crash as a large change of the nominal exchange...
Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K. Rose, Charles Wyplosz
This paper is concerned with the fact that the incidence of speculative attacks tends to be temporally correlated; that is, currency crises appear to pass contagiously from one country to another....
The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
A country's suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the currency...
Putting Things in Order: Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Growth
Robert C. Feenstra, Andrew K. Rose
We develop a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using dis-aggregated American imports data. We find strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent with...
Staying Afloat When the Wind Shifts: External Factors and Emerging-Market Banking Crises
Barry Eichengreen, Andrew K. Rose
We analyze banking crises using a panel of macroeconomic and financial data for more than one hundred developing countries from 1975 through 1992. We find that banking crises in emerging markets are...
Undertstanding the Home Market Effect and the Gravity Equation: The Role of Differentiating Goods
Robert C. Feenstra, James A. Markusen, Andrew K. Rose
This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most...
Contagion and Trade: Why Are Currency Crises Regional?
Currency crises tend to be regional; they affect countries in geographic proximity. This suggests that patterns of international trade are important in understanding how currency crises spread, above...
Risks to Lenders and Borrowers in International Capital Markets
Benjamin E. Hermalin, Andrew K. Rose
This paper provides a framework for understanding the risks to borrowers and lenders in capital markets. We begin with a description of a capital markets in a domestic context. This allows us to...
Noise Trading and Exchange Rate Regimes
Olivier Jeanne, Andrew K. Rose
Both the literature and new empirical evidence show that exchange rate regimes differ primarily by the noisiness of the exchange rate, not be measurable macroeconomic fundamentals. This motivates a...
One Money, One Market: Estimating the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade
A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years...
Estimating the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions stimulate trade; cross-sectional evidence indicates that trade stimulates output. This paper estimates the effect that currency...
Currency Unions and International Integration
This paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of...
Does a Currency Union Affect Trade? The Time Series Evidence
Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? We answer this question using a large annual panel data set covering 217 countries from 1948 through 1997. During this sample a large number...
One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade
This paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors...
Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality
Jeffrey A. Frankel, Andrew K. Rose
What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? Some have observed an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and measures of environmental quality....
Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?
This paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization (WTO), its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and...
A Gravity Model of Sovereign Lending: Trade, Default and Credit
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
One reason why countries service their external debts is the fear that default might lead to shrinkage of international trade. If so, then creditors should systematically lend more to countries with...
Do WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?
This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is...
Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration
Robert P. Flood, Andrew K. Rose
This paper develops a simple new methodology to test for asset integration and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal...
Does the WTO Make Trade More Stable?
I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has increased the stability and predictability of...
Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect
I search for a %u201Cscale%u201D effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and link the population of a country to a host of economic and social...
Fertility and the real exchange rate
Andrew K. Rose, Saktiandi Supaat, Jacob Braude
We use a quinquennial data set covering 87 countries between 1975 and 2005 to investigate empirically the relationship between fertility and the real effective exchange rate. Theoretically, a country...
Noneconomic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties
ANDREW K. ROSE, MARK M. SPIEGEL
We examine the role of noneconomic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as...
Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible...
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible...
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible...
Risks to Lenders and Borrowers in International Capital Markets
Benjamin Hermalin, Andrew K. Rose, Peter M. Garber, Andrew Crockett, David W. Mullins, Jr
Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Crisis: Early Warning
This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of...
Inflation Targeting and Business Cycle Synchronization
Flood, Robert P, Rose, Andrew K
Inflation targeting seems to have a small but positive effect on the synchronization of business cycles; countries that target inflation seem to have cycles that move slightly more closely with...
Cross-country causes and consequences of the 2008 crisis: early warning
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of...
International financial remoteness and macroeconomic volatility
Rose, Andrew K., Spiegel, Mark M.
This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In particular, we show that countries that are farther from major locations of...
Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Crisis: Early Warning
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a crosssection of 107...
Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Crisis: Early Warning
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of...
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85...
This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85...
Predicting crises, part II: Did anything matter (to everybody)?
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
The enormity of the current financial collapse raises the question whether the crisis could have been predicted. This is the second of two Economic Letters on the topic. This Letter examines research...
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
This paper models the causes of the 2008 financial crisis together with its manifestations, using a Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) model. Our analysis is conducted on a cross-section of 85...