This study examines the distribution of extreme values in daily currency changes for nine Asian countries. Using an improved estimator, extreme changes in Asian currencies can generally be represented by Frechet distributions. Our results are robust to the choice of the numeraire currency, the...

This study assesses alternative Asian exchange rate regimes and finds short- and long-run currency dynamics more conducive to the possibility of introducing a common peg based on a basket of the European euro, the United States dollar and the Japanese yen than the alternative of re-introducing a...