During the Asian crisis, intermediate exchange rate regimes vanished. It has been argued that those regimes were no longer useful and only the extremes remained valid. The paper analyses three foreign exchange regimes: Argentina (pegged), Chile (band) and Mexico (float). The Argentinean currency board delivered low financial volatility while it was credible, but even then it displayed high real...

this paper empirically investigates the exchange rate effects of iranian rial against dollar (rial vs.us) on stock prices in iran. the sample period for the study has been taken from march 20, 2004 to march 20, 2010 using daily nominal exchange rate of rial /us and daily closing values of tehran stock exchange. generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (garch) model has been use...

This paper documents a new " stylized fact " regarding commodity prices using alternative datasets covering the period from 1880 to 1996: The volatility of real commodity prices, defined as nominal commodity prices deflated by the manufacturing unit value index, is higher under flexible-exchange rate regimes than fixed-exchange rate regimes. Furthermore, changes in exchange regime are associate...

This paper discuss the associations and model construction between Taiwan and Korea’s exchange rate markets during the period from January 2000 to July 2008. The empirical results show that the mutual effects of the Taiwan and the Korea’s exchange rate markets may construct in bivariate IGARCH (1, 1) model. The empirical result also shows that there exists the positive relations between Taiwan ...

The real exchange rate is very volatile relative to major macroeconomic aggregates and its correlation with the ratio of domestic over foreign consumption is negative (BackusSmith puzzle). These two observations constitute a puzzle to standard international macroeconomic theory. This paper develops a two country model with complete asset markets and limited enforcement for international financi...