Although the worldwide growth in dollarization of bank deposits has recently slowed, it has already reached very high levels in dozens of countries. Building on earlier findings that allowed the main cross-country variations in the share of dollars to be explained in terms of national policies...

This study is an attempt to understand the behavior of Indian foreign exchange rate and its volatility characteristics by using a daily observation of Indian Rupee against US Dollar over the period of 40 years from 1st April 1973 to 31st March 2012. The foreign exchange rate volatility of Indian...

The aim of this paper is to discuss excess comovements for the Euro/US dollar and British pound/US dollar exchange rates, i.e. we look for comovements of exchange rates which are stronger than implied by fundamentals. The results of the empirical analysis give evidence that excess comovements...

In this study, we use for the first time the conditional heteroscedasticity specifications (GARCH, AGARCH, APARCH, Asymmetry MEM, MEM, EGARCH, GJR GARCH, and GAS-GARCH Student t models) to examine the volatility of exchange rate returns between the US Dollar and the Euro. So, the conditional...

One of the largest financial markets in the world is the “global foreign exchange market” with average daily trades in trillions of dollars. The forex market is the backbone of international trade, global investing and is critical to support imports and exports. The exchange rate is one of...