This paper examines the day-of-the-week effect for the forward premium puzzle. The paper finds that Thursday consistently appears to be a special day on which the deviation from the unbiasedness hypothesis is much less compared to other weekdays across currencies. In addition to Thursday, Monday...

This study investigates the random walk (RW) and the martingale difference sequence (MDS) processes for the Australian dollar and seven Asian currencies relative to three benchmark currencies between 1993 and 2008. We use Kim's (2009) Automatic Variance Ratio (AVR) test for the RW and Kuan and...

This paper empirically investigates market efficiency and trading rule profitability of the Ugandan foreign exchange market for the period January 1994 to June 2012. We test for market efficiency using a battery of variance ratio tests with superior size and power properties. We find that the...

By incorporating a keeping-up-with-the-Joneses preference into the Redux model, this paper sketches the implications of consumption externalities for the short-run and long-run equilibria. We show that the size of the consumption externality plays a crucial role in terms of affecting the...

This paper explores whether gold prices have a reliable out-of-sample relationship with the Australian dollar/US dollar nominal and real exchange rates using daily and quarterly data, respectively, spanning the period 2000–2012. Through an Error Correction Model (ECM), the empirical findings...

We analyze the dynamics of zero-coupon bond options in a situation in which the currently floating exchange rate between two countries' currencies is announced to be fixed on a given future date. To this end, we combine two strands of research that have been treated as separate issues up to...

The paper examines the Canada–US real exchange rate since the early 1970s to test two popular explanations of the long-run real exchange rate based on the influence of sectoral productivities and commodity prices. The empirical analysis finds that both variables exert a significant long-run...

This study takes into account two previously neglected issues in its analysis of the relationship between oil prices and effective dollar exchange rates, namely, nonlinear adjustment dynamics and a distinction between nominal and real linkages. Beginning with a careful investigation of different...

This paper estimates UIP slope parameters using a large number of cross-country bilateral exchange rates from a broad spectrum of developed and developing countries. Empirical evidence shows that short-term (one month) UIP holds well, and the failure of UIP is largely due to the key currency...

This paper examines the behavior of a competitive exporting firm under joint price and exchange rate uncertainty. We show that the firm's optimal production and hedging decisions depend crucially on the degree of forward market incompleteness, and on the correlation structure of the price and...