What Makes Currencies Volatile? An Empirical Investigation

Real effective exchange rate volatility is examined for 90 countries using monthly data from January 1990 to June 2006. Volatility decreases with openness to international trade and per capita GDP, and increases with inflation, particularly under a horizontal peg or band, and with terms-of-trade vol...

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Main Authors: Bleaney, Michael, Francisco, Manuela
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5427