After a long period of pegged, crawling or managed rates, Indonesia, Korea and Thailand have switched de jure to floating regimes after the 1997 Asian crisis. We focus on two issues: the volatility of exchange rates and the regime effect. Filters and GARCH type volatility models are applied to...

This paper investigates the empirical link between the US/UK real exchange rate and real interest differential for the period 1959-2002, using a bivariate Markov switching vector autoregression model. We find strong evidence of volatility regime switching in the US/UK real exchange rate-real...

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)