In this paper, we have compared forecasting performance of three economic and two autoregressive models of exchange rate in five Asian economies; namely Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Korea and Sri Lanka. Models include purchasing power parity (PPP), interest rate parity (IRP), adhoc model, random...

Financial integration of emerging economies is on the rise and so are financial and monetary spillovers, especially those originating from US economic policy decisions and the (related) evolution of the US dollar. We revisit the “trilemma” vs. “dilemma” hypothesis and assess whether, and...

This paper uses quarterly data to examine the effect of global and domestic factors on the real effective exchange rates (REER) for 20 emerging market economies for 2000-2015. We find that GDP growth and the domestic policy interest rate are robustly associated with REER appreciation in emerging...