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A stable aggregate currency revisited: Highlighting some fundamental issues

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A multicurrency numéraire is a weighted basket of currencies, where the weights sum to zero and all weights are positive. A stable aggregate currency is an optimal multicurrency numéraire, which is estimated using a minimum-variance portfolio optimisation. The variables of the portfolio optimisation are invariant currency indexes, which are multilateral exchange rates and are priced in terms of an equally-weighted basket of the currencies. This paper shows that there are some fundamental issues with the concept of a stable aggregate currency. Once these issues have been resolved, it is shown that the portfolio optimisation problem is infeasible.

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  • Kunkler, Michael, 2023. "A stable aggregate currency revisited: Highlighting some fundamental issues," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 231(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:231:y:2023:i:c:s0165176523002926
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111267
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    Exchange rates; Stable aggregate currency;

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