This paper values a hostile government's option to expropriate a multinational's assets, using stochastic calculus. We assume that the exchange rate follows a geometric Brownian motion process and expropriation events are Poisson distributed through time.

This paper presents a multi-country general equilibrium model driven by productivity shocks, where labor supply and consumption are chosen endogenously. Weuse this framework to study the effect of labor supply for optimal international diversification. We find that the model's ability to help...

This study addresses two questions: where does price discovery occur for internationally-traded firms and ho do international stock prices adjust to an exchange rate shock ?These questions are answered by analyzing quotes originating in New York and Frankfurt for three large German firms,...

The authors develop a two-country real business cycle model and examine its consistency with the behavior of relative prices, and the model's implications for economic aggregates at the sectoral level.

On March 18, 1994, the Eastern Economic Association sponsored a roundtable discussion at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, to examine the future of the international monetary system in light of the aims of the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944. The title of the roundtable captured the central...

When the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston chose "Rethinking the International Monetary System" as the topic for its 43rd Economic Conference, it was clear that the worst international financial crisis in decades had caused tremors within the economics profession and the policymaking establishment....

The recent spate of severe financial crises has provoked an interest in international monetary reform not seen since the breakdown of the fixed exchange rate system 30 years ago. Indeed, the crises have forced both academic economists and policymakers to question some of their most basic...