Using survey data, this paper investigates two theories concerning the consequences of unan ticipated increases in aM3, the broad U.K. monetary aggregate, over t he period 1981.10 to 1985.8. In order to decide whether market operat ors believe that monetary laxity will be reversed (the policy...

Some studies have suggested that although money and prices appear to be I(2) processes, real money balances are I(1) and this transformation preserves an important long-run relationship between money and prices. In this paper we present evidence indicating that the success of such a...

This study investigates exchange rate movements in the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System (EMS) and in the Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM-II). On the basis of Bessec (2003), we set up a three-regime self-exciting threshold autoregressive model (SETAR) with a...

In this paper, a number of rationality tests are implemented using survey data on exchange rate expectations for four currencies (dollar-sterling, deutsche mark-dollar, yen-dollar, and Swiss franc-dollar). It is demonstrated, inter alia, that the survey expectations are biased, orthogonal to an...

In this paper, the intertemporal government budget constraint is implemented using a U.K. data base. In particular, the recently developed cointegration methodology is utilized to test whether the U.K. authorities engaged in bubble finance over the period 1961 to 1986. The authors' results are...

In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Our approach has a number of novel features. First, we focus on the interrelationship between trade costs, the trade account and the...