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Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 28 No. 9 2004

Term structure linkages surrounding the Plaza and Louvre accords: Evidence from Euro-rates and long-memory components

Ajay Patel; Gary L. Shoesmith

Wake Forest University

Abstract

Eurocurrency deposit rates for Germany, Japan, the UK and the US are used to investigate term structure linkages over the 1979–85 and 1986–01 periods. A single common trend drives the term structure in each country, with 1-month rates generally having little or no influence in setting the long-term trend. Cointegration and common factor analyses based on the intracurrency common factors suggest weaker integration of economic fundamentals following the Plaza Accord in 1986. However, using a 10-year moving window to examine the 1986–01 period, similar tests show that integration increased between the 1986–95 and 1988–97 periods, but declined again by 1992–01.

DOI
10.1016/j.jbankfin.2003.07.003
Volume
28
Issue
9
Pages
2051-2075
Language
en
Sources
openalex crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib

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