This article intends to study the potential benefit of moving from a flexible exchange rate regime to a monetary union. To this end, we develop a two countries intertemporal general equilibrium model. We extend the Obstfeld and Rogoff [1995a] specification by introducing both physical capital...

This paper adds to the empirical literature on business cycle properties across exchange rate regimes. Earlier research examined the consequences of the Bretton Woods system on international stylized facts. However, the conclusions might be biased by the oil shocks at the beginning of the...

In the first place, we present a quasi fixed-point theorem for a correspondence defined on some infinite-dimensional locally convex topological vector space such that some variables have open lower sections and the other ones are upper semicontinuous. In the second place, we propose a direct...

This paper examines jointly the empirical relevance of the mean-reversion and the PPP hypotheses in the exchange rate dynamics under the EMS.

This paper aims at measuring the robustness of Real Business Cycle international stylized facts across exchange rate regimes. I thus investigate th e impact of the Bretton Woods System and the ERM on the business cycle regularities. Thanks to bootstrap techniques, I measure the accuracy of the...

Building on the needs for long term capital inflows in developing countries, this paper reconsiders the choice of an exchange-rate regime by integrating the determinants of multinational firms locations. The trade-off between price competitiveness and a stable nominal exchange rate is modeled....

In this paper we investigate the importance of domestic nominal and real shocks on the fluctuations of the exchange rate and the current account balance in four countries : South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Mexico. We also analyse the effect of the budgetary deficit and the monetary policy on...