Foreign Exchange Markets and Foreign Exchange Rates -- Exchange Rate Regimes and International Monetary Systems -- International Parity Conditions -- Balance of Payments and International Investment Positions -- Open Economy Macroeconomics -- Balance of Payments Issues and Exchange Rate...

The book covers problems relating to international macroeconomics and international finance. The first part develops new approaches to exchange rate modeling. The second part is a collection of papers on the theory and empirical analysis of monetary unions. The third part contains criticism of...

Key Features:Deals with the theory of exchange rate determination as well as the theory of the balance of payments under fixed exchange ratesEmphasizes the microstructure approach to exchange rates as a viable alternative to the macroeconomic approachDeals with various models in an integrated...

The IMF's internal analysis of exchange rate issues has been guided by, and limited by, the conceptual and empirical frameworks that have emerged from the collective research of the economics profession. The research has provided several general approaches that are useful for assessing whether...