While the impact of exchange rate changes on economic growth has long been an issue of key importance in international macroeconomics, it has received renewed attention in recent years, owing to weaker growth rates and the debate on “currency wars”. However, in spite of its prevalence in the...

This paper re-examines the role of exchange rates as determinantof FDI. It extends the analysis to include the issue of how exchange rates determinethe decision of invest in one country depending on whether the firm is deciding toinvest on the country to service the local market or to invest on...

Resumen:Este estudio pretende analizar empíricamente la condición Marshall-Lerner en la economía Colombiana tomando como marco de referencia el período 1980-2001. El efecto de una depreciación de la tasa de cambio real sobre la balanza comercial en el largo plazo es analizado utilizando el...

In a world of high capital mobility, several risks are emerging in the financial markets and the Central Bank intervention has played an important role in managing these risks. In India, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervenes in the foreign exchange market to maintain orderly market...

The monetary model of exchange rate determination holds that cheap monetary policy of the home country leads to depreciation of the national currency. The study attempts to enquire if the rupee/dollar exchange rate variation as observed in the period of independent float regime in Sri Lanka had...

This article examines some of the developments influencing the Australian economy’s response to disturbances such as drought, movements in world commodity prices and changing economic conditions in our trading partners and world financial markets. These developments include changes in...

This article examines the volatility dependence between the crude oil price and four US dollar exchange rates using both fractional cointegration and copula techniques. The former exploits the long memory behavior of the volatility processes to investi

We examine the relationship between the South African Rand and the gold price volatility using monthly data for the period 1979–2010. Our main finding is that prior to capital account liberalization the causality runs from the South African Rand to the gold price volatility but the causality...

To meet consumer needs, global firms typically manufacture based on their aggregate production plan after receiving demand projections from all markets. One of the consequences of matching demand with manufacturing is that these plans generally ignore the impact of exchange rate fluctuations....

This paper sets up a small open economy model to compare the link between exchange rates and interest rates under full and imperfect information. The informational friction considered here corresponds to the case where the central bank, while failing to observe output and inflation, can extract...