F3 - International Finance

• Strategic Complementarities and Money Market Fund Liquidity Management

  Staff Working Paper 2017-14 Jonathan Witmer

  Following the financial crisis, there has been increased regulatory focus on the management of liquidity in mutual funds and, specifically, whether funds hold enough liquidity to guard against the potential for investor runs.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions, Financial markets JEL Code(s): F, F3, F30, G, G0, G01, G1, G18, G2, G20

• Accounting for Real Exchange Rates Using Micro‐Data

  Staff Working Paper 2017-12 Mario J. Crucini, Anthony Landry

  The classical dichotomy predicts that all of the time-series variance in the aggregate real exchange rate is accounted for by non-traded goods in the consumer price index (CPI) basket because traded goods obey the Law of One Price. In stark contrast, Engel (1999) claimed the opposite: that traded goods accounted for all of the variance.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Exchange rates, International financial markets, Trade integration JEL Code(s): F, F3