Zentrales Anliegen des Autors ist es, die mittel- bis langfristige Entwicklung des realen Außenwertes der DM im letzten Vierteljahrhundert zu erklären. Nach einer kurzen Übersicht über Theorien zur Wechselkursbestimmung aus der Literatur werden die Elemente des hier gewählten theoretischen...

The link between capital controls and stock market volatility is examined using frequency domain techniques. Conventional analyses of the second moments can produce spurious results if the high-frequency volatility is reduced (increased) while the overall volatility is increased (reduced)

This paper examines the statistical nature of the persistency of current account balances and its determinants. With the assumption that stationary current account series ensures the long-run budget constraint while countries may experience "local non-stationarity" in current account balances,...

In this paper we study the zero frequency spectral properties of fractionally cointegrated long memory processes and introduce a new frequency domain principal components estimator of the cointegration space and the factor loading matrix for the long memory factors. We find that for fractionally...