The endogeneity of exchange-rate regimes / Barry Eichengreen -- Exchange-rate behavior under alternative exchange-rate arrangements / Mark P. Taylor -- Panel : one money for how many? / Richard N. Cooper, Ronald I. McKinnon, Michael Mussa -- Exchange rates, prices, and external adjustment in the...

The topic of contagion has gained importance in the last few decades, earning its place amongst the most debated topics in international economics. Contagion is a phenomenon where market disturbances in crisis times are observed to spread from one country to the other in the form of comovements...

This dissertation contains applications of agent-based financial market models and nonlinear econometric methods in financial economics. The first part deals with the analysis of the effectiveness of currency transaction taxes within financial market models with traders with heterogeneous...