Recent work suggests that the conditional variance of financial returns may exhibit sudden jumps. This paper extends a non-parametric procedure to detect discontinuities in otherwise continuous functions of a random variable developed by Delgado and Hidalgo (1996) to the conditional variance....

The purpose of this study is to empirically analyze the response of Canadian net exports to variations in the Canadian multilateral exchange rate. Economic theory suggests that if the sum of import and export elasticities is greater than one, a real currency depreciation will imply an increase...