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The Dataset of the Currency Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves
Portland State University Boston University and University of Oxford Just introduced (Sept. 2021) |
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Ito
and McCauley (2020) introduce a new dataset on the currency composition of foreign
exchange reserves. The aggregated data of the currency composition of
international reserves is available only for the entire world, the group of
advanced economies, and that of emerging economies from the International
Monetary Fund’s (IMF) currency composition of official foreign exchange
reserves (COFER). However, such data are not publicly available for individual
countries. They overcome the data constraint by collecting the data from
central banks’ annual reports, financial statements, and other publicly
available information sources and construct the dataset of the currency
composition of international reserves for 75 economies in the 1999-2020
period.
The data
for Latin American countries are not included due to nondisclosure agreements.
When you use the index, please
acknowledge the following papers as the data source:
Ito, H., and R. McCauley. (2020): "Currency
Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves". Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 102 (April, 102104).
Chinn, M, H Ito, and Robert N
McCauley. (2021): "Do Central Banks Rebalance
Their Currency Shares?". NBER Working Paper No. w29190 (August).
This dataset allows us to observe the development of reserve management over time for individual economies. It also includes the data for the United States and the euro-area countries.
Their dataset provides a sample size between those of extant small-sample studies ((McCauley and Chan (2014), Ito et al. (2015), Gopinath and Stein (2018b) and Lu and Wang (2019)) and the dated but near-exhaustive IMF studies (Heller and Knight (1978), Dooley et al. (1989) and Eichengreen and Mathieson (2000)).
The data coverage is also greater and more recent compared to Iancu, et al. (2020).
Aizenman, Ito, and Pasricha (2021) use the data, and Chinn, Ito, and McCauley (2021) updated the dataset.
References:
Aizenman, J., H. Ito, and G. Kaur Pasricha (2021): “Central Bank Swap Arrangements in the COVID-19 Crisis. NBER Working Paper No. 28585.
Chinn, M, H Ito, and Robert N
McCauley (2021): "Do Central Banks Rebalance
Their Currency Shares?". NBER Working Paper No. w29190 (August 2021).
Dooley, M (1987): An analysis of the management of the currency composition of reserve assets and external liabilities of developing countries. In R Aliber, ed, The reconstruction of international monetary arrangements, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, pp 262-280.
Eichengreen, B and D Mathieson (2000): “The currency composition of foreign exchange reserves: retrospect and prospect”, IMF Working Papers, no 00/131, July.
Gopinath, G and J Stein (2018): Trade invoicing, bank funding, and central bank reserve holdings” American Economic Review, vol 108, May, pp 542-546.
Heller, H and M Knight (1978): “Reserve currency preferences of central banks”, Princeton Essays in International Finance, no 131, December.
Iancu, A., G. Anderson, S. Ando, E. Boswell, A. Gamba, S. Hakobyan, L. Lusinyan, N. Meads, Y. Wu (2020): “Reserve currencies in an evolving international monetary system”, IMF Departmental Paper 2020/002, 17 November.
Ito, H.,
and R. McCauley. "Currency
Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves". Journal of International Money and Finance, Volume 102 (April 2020, 102104).
Ito, H, R. McCauley and T Chan (2015): “Emerging market currency composition of reserves, denomination of trade and currency movements”, Emerging Markets Review, December, pp 16-19.
Lu, Y and Y Wang (2019): “Determinants of Currency Composition of Reserves: a Portfolio Theory Approach with an Application to RMB”, IMF Working Paper WP/19/52, March.
McCauley, R and T Chan (2014): “Currency movements drive reserve composition”, BIS Quarterly Review, December, pp 23-36.
Update on 9/21/2021