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An Intermediation-Based Model of Exchange Rates

Malamud, Semyon  
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Schrimpf, Andreas
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Zhang, Yuan
May 30, 2025
The Review of Financial Studies

We develop a continuous-time general equilibrium model with intermediaries at the heart of international financial markets. Global intermediaries bargain with households and extract rents from providing access to foreign claims. By tilting state prices, intermediaries’ market power breaks monetary neutrality and makes international risk-sharing inefficient. Despite having zero net positions, markups charged by intermediaries significantly distort international asset prices, affecting exchange rate dynamics and their response to shocks. Our model can reproduce patterns consistent with several well-known exchange rate puzzles, such as deviations from uncovered and covered interest parity. All equilibrium quantities are derived in closed form, allowing us to pin down the underlying economic mechanisms explicitly. (JEL E44, E52, F31, F33, G13, G15, G23)

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DOI
10.1093/rfs/hhaf037
Author(s)
Malamud, Semyon  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Schrimpf, Andreas

Bank for International Settlements

Zhang, Yuan

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Date Issued

2025-05-30

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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The Review of Financial Studies
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June 3, 2025
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