This article is a first analysis of daily transactions in the foreign exchange market of Barbados, a small open economy that has had an unchanged peg to the US dollar for over 30 years. As a result of the credibility of the peg, we expect that capital flows will respond to differentials between...

This article incorporates the Castle and Hendry (2010) portmanteau test into an Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Hetroscedasticity in Mean (EGARCH-M) model to investigate nonlinearities in the reaction of daily foreign exchange activity to the interest rate differential between...