I asked "Does the Current Account Matter?" in Corden (1991). In that article I made a distinction between the Old View and the New View of the current account. The present paper will not repeat the exposition of these two views in any detail. Rather, the aim is both to improve on the rigour of...

In this study it is attempted to estimate the amount of speculation in foreign exchange market.

Ireland has experienced six major changes in exchange rate regimes over the period 1797 to today. This paper provides an historical perspective on this experience.

In this study it is attempted to estimate the amount of speculation in foreign exchange market.

This paper discusses within a common analytical framework the logical and analytical links between theories of exchange rate crises that model the abandonment of a peg as an optimizing decision by rational policy makers, and theories that focus on the dynamics of speculative attacks when...

This paper presents a multi-country general equilibrium model driven by productivity shocks, where labor supply and consumption are chosen endogenously. Weuse this framework to study the effect of labor supply for optimal international diversification. We find that the model's ability to help...

This study addresses two questions: where does price discovery occur for internationally-traded firms and ho do international stock prices adjust to an exchange rate shock ?These questions are answered by analyzing quotes originating in New York and Frankfurt for three large German firms,...