Using data from Barro (1990), Dwyer and Hafer (1988), Duck (1993) and Vogel (1974), we revisit the finding that cross-sectional regressions of long-run average inflation on money growth and real income growth support the quantity theory, and conclude that, as is frequently argued, this depends...

This paper estimates a simple model of the exchange rate between the East and West German Mark immediately preceding German monetary union. Although there is a theoretical literature on exchange rate dynamics when the introduction of a fixed exchange rate is anticipated, the absence of data has...

This paper studies the exchange rate between the East and West German mark in the period before German monetary union. We show that standard exchange rate theory contains strong predictions about the dynamics of the exchange rate under these circumstances, and we use state-space methods to...