A shrinkage estimator that accounts for estimation risks is developed and employed to re-access whether the monetary fundamentals help predict changes in exchange rates. The suggested estimator is featured by optimally pooling information from cross-sections across time and that from the individual time series of concern. While the estimation risk in term of mean squared errors takes place in t...

Exchange rates differ considerably with respect to exchange rate volatility, while they are very similar with respect to the macroeconomic fundamentals — the well known exchange rate disconnect puzzle. The microeconomic structure of foreign exchange markets, especially the existence of noise traders, may be responsible for the excessive volatility in flexible exchange rate regimes. The entry of...

This paper re-examines Dornbusch’s (1976) sticky-price monetary model to exchange rate determination by employing both conventional Johansen’s (1988, 1990, 1994) maximum likelihood cointegration test and the ARDL Bound test by Pesaran, Shin, and Smith (2001) for the monthly data of Taiwan over the period 1986:01∼2003:04. Ambiguous results are found for the long-run equilibrium relationship betw...

I study how the general and specific details of a micro founded monetary framework affect the determination of policy when the government has limited commitment. The conduct of policy depends on the interaction between the incentive to smooth distortions intertemporally and a time-consistency problem. In equilibrium, fiscal and monetary policies are distortionary, but long-run policy is not aff...

This paper examines the spillover effects of monetary policy from federal funds rate (FFR) to European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate. The study implements a regression model examine pass-through effect between two rates. Using quarterly data for period 1999:1-2019:1 estimated results indicate statistically significant relationship Federal Funds Rate and Granger causality tests suggest that r...

Candidate countries of central and eastern Europe (CEECs) are suppose to join the EU in 2004, June, which imply that they will face important challenges in the conduct of macroeconomic policy, in order to be able to enter the ERM-II system and eventually enter the EMU (European Monetary Union). Abandoning an independent monetary policy might entail significant costs for countries, which have su...

Emerging market crises are characterized by large swings in both macroeconomic fundamentals and asset prices. The economic significance of observed movements in macroeconomic variables is obscured by the brief and extreme nature of crises. In this paper we propose to study the macroeconomic consequences of crises by studying the behavior of ‘‘effective’’ fundamentals, constructed by studying th...