This paper provides an empirical framework to analyse the nature of currency crises by extending earlier work of Jeanne and Masson (2000; Journal of International Economics, Vol. 50, pp. 327–350). Jeanne and Masson suggest a Markov regime switching models to analyse models of currency crises with...

This paper provides the empirical framework to analyse the nature of currency crises by extending earlier work of Jeanne and Masson (2000) who suggest that a currency crisis model with multiple equilibria can be estimated using Markov regime switching (MRS) models. However, Jeanne and Masson...

This study presents an analytical framework to examine the policy reaction function of a central bank in an open economy context while allowing for asymmetric preferences. The paper then empirically examines the policy rule obtained from this framework using quarterly data for the US, Canada,...