Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates and Currency Sovereignty

Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Labour Market Adjustment under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates

The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the value to a firm of waiting to adjust labour when the firm ́s revenues in domestic currency are stochast...

Wages, Flexible Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Policy*

In an open economy with a floaLing exchange rate, the efficacy of fiscal and monetary policy depends fundamentally on the wage-setting pnxiess. In the canonical models of Mundell and Fleming, monetary expansion raises output via an exchange rate depreciation, while fiscal expansion has no output effect. These results hold only when real wages can be altered by exchange rate movements; if the re...

Flexible exchange rates and insulation : A reexamination

Theoretical and Operational Study to Allocate Foreign Currency through Exchange

One of the most important policies concerning the adjustment of foreign trade is to allocate foreign currency by establishing an exchange control system. The mechanism of this would be so that the Central Bank operates or supervises all transactions concerning foreign exchange. However, the controlling system, like all other international systems of payment, operates with some adjustments and i...

Neural Network Based Forecasting of Foreign Currency Exchange Rates

The foreign currency exchange market is the highest and most liquid of the financial markets, with an estimated $1 trillion traded every day. Foreign exchange rates are the most important economic indices in the international financial markets. The prediction of them poses many theoretical and experimental challenges. This paper reports empirical proof that a neural network model is applicable ...