The paper examines the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on real output and the price level in a sample of 33 developing countries. The theoretical model decomposes movements in the exchange rate into anticipated and unanticipated components. Unanticipated currency fluctuations help to...

This paper builds two factor discrete time models in order to investigate the effect of sovereign risk on the nominal exchange rates in a Markov switching framework. The empirical section of the paper uses seven currencies from Chile, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Korea, and...

This paper addresses exchange rate determination under a nominal interest peg in a two-country cash-in-advance model. Under two types of cash-in-advance constraints, if both governments peg the nominal interest rate on domestic bonds, there is a continuum of equilibria, each consistent with...