The adoption of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in 1986 resulted in the transition from fixed exchange rate regime to floating exchange rate regime in Nigeria. Ever since, the exchange rate of naira vis-à-vis the U.S dollar has attained varying rates all through different time horizons. On this basis, this study examines the consistency, persistency, ...

This paper examines empirically the interest rate-exchange rate link in the context of the Mexican experience with a floating exchange regime. The impulse response function derived from an ECM estimated by GMM reveals a lasting positive effect of a currency depreciation on the peso-dollar interest rate differential. Some of the macroeconomic consequences from this pattern are discussed, togethe...

Although gold is no longer a central cornerstone of the international monetary and financial system, it still attracts considerable attention from researchers and investors. Nowadays, many investors manage their risk with valuable assets such as gold. This paper examines the dynamic relationships between gold and stock markets in the Tehran Stock Exchange. We have applied the Markov switching m...

• Canada’s lengthy experience with a flexible exchange rate regime has had an important impact on the development of macroeconomic theory and policy in open economies. • This article focuses on the 1950–62 floating-rate period because the flexible exchange rate, combined with a high degree of capital mobility between Canada and the United States, provided an unprecedented experiment for macroec...

This paper studies the causes, mechanisms and consequences of decreasing firm value and welfare loss in an economy under a fixed exchange rate regime when there is an unexpected appreciation in domestic currency. We also study the possible economic crisis caused by the exchange rate shock. We consider the established production capacity as well as the training of firmspecific labors before prod...

There is an ongoing debate on the question of which exchange rate regime is better suited to guarantee stability: fixed or flexible rates? The macroeconomic crisis in Argentina has again stimulated the discussion. In this paper, we argue that it is misleading to solely concentrate on exchange rate policy to assess the preconditions for stability in an international surrounding. Instead, we show...

Typical evaluations of the choice of exchange rate regime examine the performance or the real economy and assume that the regimes last indetinitely. In contrast, actual regimes are quite transitory. This paper examines how the predictions of two popular models for the determination of some real economic variables must be modified when agents rationally perceive that a lixed rate regime will be ...

We present new evidence that numerous US industries are exposed to exchange rates. The di erences between our ndings and those in the extant literature are a result of using a new methodological approach which takes account of exchange rate regimes based on periods of depreciation and appreciation. Within each regime we show that rst, the stock market's own exposure to exchange rates should be ...

There are little subjects in macroeconomics that are so widely discussed, but at the same time controversial and without a clear solution such as the choice of exchange rate regime. National authorities need to take into consideration numerous fundamentals, trying to fulfil goals of economic growth, low and stable inflation and international stability. This paper focuses on the countries of exY...