Contingent valuation surveys have become an important tool in placing monetary values on non-market goods and amenities. Many policy issues involve evaluation of several alternatives such as different environmental quality levels, different levels of risk, etc. Contingent valuation then involves...

This paper investigates the structural differences of the free floating exchange rate regime after the economic crisis compared to the managed float exchange rate regime before the economic crisis. This paper focuses on the relationship between exchange rates and economic fundamentals. It is...

This paper estimates UIP slope parameters using a large number of cross-country bilateral exchange rates from a broad spectrum of developed and developing countries. Empirical evidence shows that short-term (one month) UIP holds well, and the failure of UIP is largely due to the key currency...

Korea provides a unique opportunity to study the different behaviors or roles, if any, of limited flexibility and free floating exchange rate regimes. Korea shifted from a limited flexibility to a free floating exchange rate regime after the 1997 economic crisis. It is well documented that the...

This paper proposes the generalized method of moment estimation of truncated or censored regression model, and applies this procedure to the recreational demand model estimation. In a typical limited dependent variable regression, the conditional mean of error distribution is no longer zero....

We model a country's de jure exchange rate policy as the choice from a multinomial logit response conditioned on the volatility of its bilateral exchange rate, the volatility of its international reserves, and the volatility of its effective exchange rate. The category with the highest...