We estimate the exposure of emerging-market companies to fluctuations in their domestic exchange rates. We use an instrumental-variable approach that identifies the total exposure of a company to exchange-rate movements, yet abstracts from the influence of confounding macroeconomic shocks. We find the impact of depreciations on emerging-market stock returns is overwhelmingly negative. Since we ...

I n January 1999, eleven European countries abandoned their respective national currencies and monetary independence to adopt a common currency, the Euro.1 This event, in which several industrialized countries formed a currency union, stands out in modern monetary history by its uniqueness, and in due time, it will allow for a better understanding of the implications of different monetary arran...

in this paper, the value of exchange rate was calculated in order to determine comparative advantage in crops of sari township during 2009-2010. hence, first, comparative advantage indices are estimated by using a policy analysis matrix. the results showed that just wheat has a drc index of one in the minimum amount of national currency exchange rate value. this indicated the fact that only whe...

We model the realignment risk in a two-factor exchange rate target zone model using a Cox process framework. The first factor is the current exchange rate evolving inside the target zone, and the second factor is a shadow exchange rate depicting the free floating exchange rate in the absence of a target zone. By using a Cox process, as opposed to a standard Poisson process, the realignment inte...

This paper examines the effect of unexpected exchange rate movements on U.S. shareholder wealth. Empirical results based on a sample of 634 U.S. multinational firms (1) confirm previously reported evidence that the disaggregation of the worldwide tradeweighted U.S. dollar exchange rate index into seven regionspecific trade-weighted indices increases the precision and significance of exposure es...

Whether a monetary policy (rule) aiming at stabilizing the economy efficiently should take exchange rate movements into consideration is an issue that recently has drawn a lot of attention. So far, however, no persuasive empirical evidence on the topic has been provided. Using well-established long-run economic equilibrium conditions building on traditional monetary views and by using cointegra...

In an open economy with a floaLing exchange rate, the efficacy of fiscal and monetary policy depends fundamentally on the wage-setting pnxiess. In the canonical models of Mundell and Fleming, monetary expansion raises output via an exchange rate depreciation, while fiscal expansion has no output effect. These results hold only when real wages can be altered by exchange rate movements; if the re...