The aim of this paper is to discuss excess comovements for the Euro/US dollar and British pound/US dollar exchange rates, i.e. we look for comovements of exchange rates which are stronger than implied by fundamentals. The results of the empirical analysis give evidence that excess comovements...

One of the largest financial markets in the world is the “global foreign exchange market” with average daily trades in trillions of dollars. The forex market is the backbone of international trade, global investing and is critical to support imports and exports. The exchange rate is one of...

One of the world's largest financial markets is the “global foreign exchange market,” with average daily trades in trillions of dollars. The forex market is the backbone of international trade, global investing, and is critical to support imports and exports. The exchange rate is one of the...

This study measures the degree of dollarization in North Korea using results from a survey of 231 North Korean refugees. Specifically, we compare foreign currency use of households as both store-of-value substitutes (i.e., asset substitution) and transaction substitutes (i.e., currency...

Tiny changes in the American monetary policy can have dramatic effects on the rest of the world because of its double role of national and international currency. This is what I call the Triffin dilemma, an ever green concept in international finance. In the paper I show how it works through...

In this paper, we study the drivers of permanent and transitory deposit dollarization for a sample of CESE countries using panel cointegration techniques. The results suggest that a positive cointegration relationship exists between permanent dollarization and Minimum Variance Portfolio (MVP)...