Upon moving to Hamburg, Germany, after a couple of years abroad, I noticed that gas prices at the pump varied much more over time than I had been accustomed to in Hungary. Neither did these fluctuations tally well with previous personal experience living in Bavaria for almost two decades. To be...

We lay out an empirical and a theoretical model to analyze the effects of non-fundamental exchange rate volatility on economic activity and welfare. In the first part of the paper, the GARCH-SVARmodel is applied to measure empirically the effect of the conditional exogenous exchange rate...