Die deutsche Wirtschaft wickelt gut 40 % ihres internationalen Warenhandels innerhalb des Euroraums ab. Dennoch ist sie von Veränderungen der Währungsrelationen betroffen, weil die Verflechtung der Weltwirtschaft noch immer zunimmt und Wechselkursveränderungen des Euro auch den Wettbewerb im...

Am 15. Januar 2015 entschied die Schweizerische Notenbank, den Mindestkurs des Franken zum Euro aufzugeben. Binnen kurzer Zeit wertete der Franken um bis zu 20% auf. Das niedrige Zinsniveau in der Schweiz hatte zuvor Schuldner in die Schweiz gelockt. Viele vermeintliche Gewinner von...

Using two examples we have shown that large fluctuations in real exchange rates cannot normally be attributed to "overshooting" in the Dornbusch sense. We proposed to use the interest differential between to countries as a direct and reliable measure of the extend of overshooting. Observing that...

The study analyzed the effectiveness of exchange rate on macroeconomic variables of Pakistan. The precise objective of the study is to examine the causality between exchange rate, trade, inflation, FDI and GDP through a series of models. On the annual time series data for the years 1980-2009...

African countries have over the years experienced persistent current account deficits. The role of asymmetries in explaining the response of trade balance to exchange rate movement has not received adequate attention as linear models dominate extant empirical literature. In this paper, we...

Purpose: The main propose of this study is to investigate how exchange rate risk affects the buy-back and revenue-sharing contracts in the global supply chain, hence to improve the performance of global supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a two-echelon global supply chain, with...

This agent-based financial market model is a generalization of the model of Westerhoff (The Use of Agent-Based Financial Market Models to Test the Effectiveness of Regulatory Policies) by traders who are allowed to have different investment horizons as introduced by Demary (Who Does a Currency...