Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of derivative securities in over‐pricing and market corrections. Design/methodology/approach – Daily market data from major indices are used to determine if the market was over‐priced in 1987. Then, the literature is examined to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of China's exchange rate policy and fiscal expansion. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a reprint of a Financial Times online forum contribution dated 10 February 2009. Findings – The paper finds that there is a good...

Purpose – Since the introduction of the concepts of the J‐ and S‐curves, many researchers have tried to verify their validity empirically. This paper aims to review the related papers and to offer direction for future research. Design/methodology/approach – This is a review paper. As...

Develops a method of forecasting foreign exchange rate by normal mixture model (NMM). Initially establishes a set of exchange rate models and switches from one model to another probabilistically, depending on supply shocks or government policy changes. By assuming that the population...

The assignment of targets to instruments in developing countries cannot satisfactorily follow any simple universal rule. Which approach is appropriate is influenced by whether the economy is dominated by primary exports, by the importance of the domestic bond market and bank credit, by the...

This paper provides some additional empirical evidence on the effect of exchange‐rate volatility on exports. The novelties of the study include: a regime‐switching model in conditional volatility is employed to better capture the exchange‐rate uncertainty; a 2SLS method as suggested by...

This paper investigates whether the investment strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) have changed as a result of the 1997 financial crisis in Korea. Estimation results using balanced panel data indicate that the investment decisions of global MNEs seem to have changed following the...

An impassioned debate has been on in the academic and policy circles regarding the undervaluation of the renminbi (RMB) yuan. This issue has emerged as one of the most contentious and thought‐provoking in the discipline of international finance. That it is undervalued is widely acknowledged....

Tests for long‐run macroeconomic convergence among European Union (EU) countries according to the various exchange rate regimes that have prevailed over the last 40 years. Applying a recently developed test to the monthly index of industrial production data, output convergence is confirmed or...