This study examines the proposition that destabilizing speculation caused the overvaluation of the pound sterling in mid-1924 and the depreciation of the franc Poincare in mid-1925, by testing for the existence of long-run purchasing power parity in the 1920s for the dollar/sterling,...

The monetary model of exchange rate determination is tested by means of cointegration analysis for three bilateral drachma exchange rates over the period September 1919 to April 1928. Strong evidence is obtained for the drachma-US dollar case of a long-run relationship which is identified with...

In this paper an attempt is made to provide an understanding of the black market premium. To this end the operation of the parallel or black market for US dollars in Greece during the recent float is investigated. A series of tests is employed in order to examine the role of changes in agents'...

This paper re-examines the Cagan model of German hyperinflation during the 1920s under the twin hypotheses that the system contains variables that are I(2) and that a linear trend is required in the cointegrating relations. Using the recently developed I(2) cointegration analysis developed by...

This paper applies the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) multivariate GARCH model of Engle (2002), in order to examine the time-varying conditional correlations to the weekly index returns of seven emerging stock markets of Central and Eastern Europe. We used weekly data for the period...