While the impact of exchange rate changes on economic growth has long been an issue of key importance in international macroeconomics, it has received renewed attention in recent years, owing to weaker growth rates and the debate on "currency wars". However, in spite of its prevalence in the...

Several recent empirical and theoretical studies have revived interest in the relationship between the level of the exchange rate and economic development. This paper develops a dynamic model based on the Ricardian framework with a continuum of goods to consider the issue from a somewhat...

While the impact of exchange rate changes on economic growth has long been an issue of key importance in international macroeconomics, it has received renewed attention in recent years, owing to weaker growth rates and the debate on "currency wars". However, in spite of its prevalence in the...

Am 16. Februar 2000 vollendete Professor Vincenz Timmermann sein 65. Lebensjahr. Er hat sich - weit über die Stätten seiner wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit hinaus - einen Ruf als vielseitiger und engagierter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler erworben. Mit dieser Festschrift möchten Kollegen und...