The paper examines the stochastic behaviour and the volatility patterns of the Greek drachma against the German mark and the US dollar in response to shifts in the monetary stances of Germany and the US. The methodological design is the GARCH specification. The results strongly suggest that...

The paper investigates the issue of whether exchange rate volatility has any significant adverse effects on the trade volume between several European Union countries and Germany over the 1979-1998 period. The measure for exchange rate volatility is obtained from an Exponentially Generalized...

This paper explores the implications of military and nonmilitary government expenditures on gross private investment. The empirical investigation of the issue is carried out via cointegration and error-correction analyses. The second type of public spending is disaggregated into infrastructure,...