Nominal exchange rate volatility has been greater than that of "fundamentals" supposed to establish the exchange rates. A major contribution to our understanding of this volatility was given by Rudiger Dornbusch in his 1976 paper "Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics", where stickiness of...

The absolute deterministic version of purchasing power parity (PPP), in which nominal exchange rates move precisely to offset changes in aggregate price levels between national economies, is not generally supported by empirical evidence. Testing PPP with standard regression models permits some...

Books reviewed: Richard O. Zerbe Jr, Economic Efficiency in Law and Economics Steve Keen, Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol, Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests D. Cutler and E. Berndt, Medical Care Output and...

The common belief based on accumulated evidence from the US and Japan is that most price-relevant information originates while financial markets are in operation. In this paper, we present evidence from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) that contradicts this view. We find that a larger...