Recent theoretical developments in exchange rate economics have led to important new insights into the functioning of the foreign exchange market. The simple models of the 1970s, which could not withstand empirical evaluation, have been succeeded by more complex models that draw on theoretical...

It has been forty years since the oil crisis of 1973/74. This crisis has been one of the defining economic events of the 1970s and has shaped how many economists think about oil price shocks. In recent years, a large literature on the economic determinants of oil price fluctuations has emerged....

High-frequency activity on NASDAQ / Martin Scholtus and Dick van Dijk -- The profitability of high-frequency trading : is it for real? / Imad Moosa and Vikash Ramiah -- Data characteristics for high-frequency trading systems / Bruce Vanstone and Tobias Hahn -- The relevance of heteroskedasticity...