This study examines the optimal exchange rate regime for the South Korea gross domestic product, using time series data from 1965 to 2009. From the cointegration and the Granger causality test results, it was found that the pegged exchange rate regime (to the US dollar and to a basket of...

This paper proposes a novel measure of French investor sentiment based on the volume of internet search reported by Google Trends. We find that our sentiment indicator correlates well with alternative sentiment measures often used in the literature. Furthermore, we find that investor sentiment...