1st Edition

Exchange Rates and International Finance Markets An Asset-Theoretic Perspective with Schumpeterian Perspective

By Erich Streissler Copyright 2002
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book poses the important question of whether exchange rates are ultimately tied down by economic fundamentals. In a unique approach the subject is analysed from an asset holder's perspective and Streissler takes the reader through an authoritative and wide-ranging study including: *Friedman's case for flexible exchange rates *interest parity and purchasing power parity *process analysis of... Read more
Lecture I: Fundamentals? Exchange rates in the light of Schumpeter but not of Dioletian Lecture II: Preliminaries Friedman's case for flexible exchange rates versus random walks in theory and practice Lecture III: Equilibria? Interest parity and purchasing power parity - which kind of equilibria? Lecture IV: Divergence Process analysis of temporal exchange rate equilibria Lecture V: Stabilization Further results on process equilibria and countervailing forces making for mean reversion Lecture VI: Mere demand and supply Stabilization through bounded interest rates and exchange rate theory Without the contrivance of macroeconomics Lecture VII: Non-neutrality I On the nature of money - or: The story of Anacharsis the Scythian, Part I Lecture VIII: Non-neutrality II The story of Anacharsis the Scythian Part II

Biography

Erich Streissler