I test the bipolar view hypothesis on the exchange rates of countries of the AMF which are countries with relative free capital mobility. I find that oil price shocks seem to be the source of less flexible exchange rates

I show why, when the realized rates of depreciation within the exchange rate band are regressed on a given information set and conditioned on ("ex post") actual no realignment ("ý la" drift adjustment), a 'peso problem' is still encountered. The reason is that the frequency of realignments in...

Using data from the 1964 Survey of the Economic Behavior of the Affluent, we estimate directly the fraction of household assets which come from inheritances and the fraction from gifts. These data are well suited for this calculation because the survey is heavily weighted toward households with...

This paper shows why regressing the realised rates of depreciation within the exchange rate band on a given information set and conditional on (ex-post) actual no-realignment (à la drift adjustment) still encounters a "Peso Problem". Such a procedure generally gives inconsistent estimates. The...

We present a model that illustrates the close relationship between the possibility of a currency crisis and the amount of private-sector debt within a four-stage sequential game framework. In the first stage, the government announces its exchange rate policy, and all agents in the economy...

I test the bipolar view hypothesis on the exchange rates of countries of the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) which are countries with relative free capital mobility. I find that oil price shocks seem to be the source of less flexible exchange rates.

Instead of just focusing on the effect of exchange rate levels (undervalued or overvalued exchange rates) on trade, this paper provides an analysis of the effects of exchange rate volatility levels on international trade. Intuitively, an increase in exchange rate volatility leads to uncertainty...