This paper examines whether foreign exchange black markets have eroded the effectiveness of capital controls and contributed to an increase in the effective degree of capital mobility in a sample of Asian countries. Comparing the uncovered interest parity forecast errors between the official and...

This paper studies China's foreign exchange market before and after the 1994 unification of the official and swap exchange rates. Examining segmentation as well as linkages among the foreign exchange adjustment centers (FEACs) reveals that the linkages were not strong enough to eliminate or...