This paper investigates possible drivers of volatility in the South African rand since the onset of the global … financial crisis. We assess the role played by local and international economic surprises, commodity price volatility, global … market risk perceptions, and local political uncertainty. As a measure of rand volatility, the study uses a market …

This paper examines the impact of Dollar exchange rate volatility on firm productivity in Emerging Markets economies … volatility reduces firm productivity growth. Exploring channels, its finds that the results are driven by countries with low … impact on firm productivty. Further, exploiting firm level data, the paper shows that dollar exchange rate volatility …

(RBA) have had on the level and volatility of the Australian dollar exchange rate. First, using an event study we evaluate … Australian dollar. Second, we investigate the effects of RBA intervention policies on exchange rate volatility over the floating … volatility, which suggests that official intervention may have added to market uncertainty. Overall, the effects of RBA …

accompanied by an increase in the shares of the pound sterling, yen and euro, other long-standing reserve currencies and units …

standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …Does the South African rand's relatively large volatility affect inflation? To shed some light on this question, a …. Estimated results suggest that higher exchange rate volatility tends to increase core inflation but to a relatively limited …