This study aims to investigate whether the phenomena found by Shnoll et al. when applying histogrampattern analysis techniques to stochastic processes from chemistry and physics are also present infinancial time series, particularly exchange rate and index data. The phenomena are related to...

This thesis examines exchange rate exposure of 30 U.S. industries between 1974 and 2008 using traditional and orthogonalized linear models. Similar to the literature, when using traditional linear model we find that exposure is very time dependent and often insignificant. However, we discover...

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The main goal of this research is to investigate whether foreign exchange transacting costs are an impediment to intra-regional trading within the Southern African Development Community SADC region. The research question posed has been whether foreign exchange trading costs affect the amount of...

Exchange rate fluctuations are believed to affect the value of construction companies with foreign sales and/or operations for various economic reasons. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between both the Rand/US Dollar and Rand/Euro exchange rates, and the value of...

This thesis examines the impact of exchange rate risk on asset pricing under varying market structures. To understand this effect, in the first part of the thesis the analytical derivation of an international asset-pricing model within a mean-variance framework is attempted. In the second part,...

The way a country manages its currency can affect its volume of trade, capital flows and income. A country, especially one with high degree of trade openness, needs to find the most suitable exchange rate arrangement to reduce the volatility of its currency value and output. This thesis examines...

This dissertation is concerned with the examination of some widely employed nonlinear exchange rate models. In particular, its aim is to assess how well non-linear statistical models accommodate the theoretical implications contained in economic models and how well they are able to capture the...