Journal Article
Coming to America: covered bonds?
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2012)
Ultimately, covered bonds and ABS are complements, not substitutes.
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Journal Article
When oil prices jump, is speculation to blame?
Juvenal, Luciana; Petrella, Ivan; Fawley, Brett W. (2012-04)
Whenever the price at the pump climbs week after week, people start pointing fingers at investment banks, hedge funds and other speculators. This article quantifies the role that speculation played in the rise of oil prices during the past decade.
The Regional Economist , Issue Apr

Working Paper
Threshold adjustment in deviations from the law of one price
Taylor, Mark P.; Juvenal, Luciana (2008)
Using self-exciting threshold autoregressive models, we explore the validity of the law of one price (LOOP) for sixteen sectors in nine European countries. We and strong evidence of nonlinear mean reversion in deviations from the LOOP and highlight the importance of modelling the real exchange rate in a nonlinear fashion in an attempt to measure speeds of real exchange rate adjustment. Using the US dollar as a reference currency, the half-lives of sectoral real exchange rates shocks, calculated by Monte Carlo integration, imply much faster adjustment than the consensus half-life estimates of ...
Working Papers , Paper 2008-027

Journal Article
Capital controls by any other name
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2011)
The embrace of ad hoc capital controls to address temporary market inefficiencies on a case-by-case basis, while pragmatic, perpetuates the view that each capital crisis is an isolated example of failed financial institutions.
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Journal Article
Mexico's integration into NAFTA markets: a view from sectoral real exchange rates
Juvenal, Luciana; Blavy, Rodolphe (2009-09)
The authors use a threshold autoregressive model to confirm the presence of nonlinearities in sectoral real exchange rate dynamics across Mexico, Canada, and the United States for the periods before and after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Although trade liberalization is associated with reduced transaction costs and lower relative price differentials among countries, the authors find, by using estimated threshold bands, that Mexico still faces higher transaction costs than its developed counterparts. Other determinants of transaction costs are distance and nominal exchange ...
Review , Volume 91 , Issue Sep , Pages 441-464

Journal Article
International trade integration and business cycle synchronization
Juvenal, Luciana (2009)
The changes in international trade and finance are linked to the changes in business cycle correlations.
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Journal Article
Commodity price gains: speculation vs. fundamentals
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2011-07)
Commodities of all sorts have risen in price over the past few years. Some say that the prices reflect a bubble, driven by low interest rates and excessive speculation. Others say the price gains can be fully explained by supply and demand.
The Regional Economist , Issue July , Pages 4-9

Journal Article
Quantitative easing: lessons we've learned
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2012-07)
The Regional Economist , Issue Jul

Journal Article
Japan reenters the foreign exchange market
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2010)
From 1999 to 2004 Japan unilaterally sold a combined, and unprecedented, 500 billion dollars of yen.
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Journal Article
Why health care matters and the current debt does not
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2011-10)
All of the attention given to raising the debt ceiling this past summer might lead some to believe that spending by the federal government only recently became unsustainable. Hardly. We've been on this path a long time.
The Regional Economist , Issue Oct , Pages 4-5