In the early 1970s, the portfolio theory of exchange rates with rational expectations was introduced to explain the behavior of floating exchange rates. While attractive in principle, the approach failed along with other theories to provide empirically convincing results. Over the years, the...

We study whether information about imminent future dividends can abate bubbles in experimental asset markets. Using the seminal design of Smith et al. (1988) we find that markets where traders are asymmetrically informed about future dividends have smaller, and shorter, bubbles than markets with...

The Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) puzzle has remained a moot point since it first circulated economic discourse in 1984 and, despite a number of attempts at a solution, the UIP puzzle and other anomalies in Exchange Rate Economics continue to perplex economic thought in international finanace....

'In this impressive work, Norman Miller tackles a central--perhaps the central--puzzle in international finance: why it is that changes in exchange rates do not equalize returns across borders. In this comprehensive treatment, Miller surveys and synthesizes the recent empirical literature to...

Professor Taylor and Professor Manzur offer in this volume a selection of published articles by leading scholars which are representative of recent key developments in this area of study. With an initial look at earlier papers which lay the groundwork for more recent research, the collection...

Key Features:Deals with the theory of exchange rate determination as well as the theory of the balance of payments under fixed exchange ratesEmphasizes the microstructure approach to exchange rates as a viable alternative to the macroeconomic approachDeals with various models in an integrated...

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die makroökonomische Rolle des Wechselkurses und des Wechselkurssystems. Neben flexiblen Wechselkursen werden auch feste Wechselkurse und damit verbundene Gefahren wie Währungskrisen im Detail analysiert. Diese dritte Auflage bietet verschiedene inhaltliche...

The creation of the European Central Bank and the Euro have brought new challenges to EU integration and economic policy. This book looks into issues ofmonetary and factor market policies. The analysis also presents new theoretical and empirical research on the - transitory - decline of the...