2015/10/12
Bilateral Versus
Trade Weighted Exchange Rate
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The effective or trade-weighted exchange rate of
currency A is a weighted average of its exchange rate against currencies
A,B,C,D,E...
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Buying versus selling rate
Micro-structure study à
bid/ask rate
Market mecanism à
the use of money exchange which used by buyers or sellers with open system
value to produce the best goods or service.
*Floating rates à
exchange rate at any moment determined by net demand for currency
*Fix rate à monetary authority intervenes by buying up excess supply or satisfying excess demand
*Manage floating
*Balance of payment ; current account, capital account, and resrve change
*Exchange rate since world war, consist of:
- Bretton woods (1944-68)
- Breakdown (1968-73)
- Floating era (1973 onward)
- EMU (1998 onward)
- Increasing importance of Asian exchange rates 2000 onward
*Fix rate à monetary authority intervenes by buying up excess supply or satisfying excess demand
*Manage floating
*Balance of payment ; current account, capital account, and resrve change
*Exchange rate since world war, consist of:
- Bretton woods (1944-68)
- Breakdown (1968-73)
- Floating era (1973 onward)
- EMU (1998 onward)
- Increasing importance of Asian exchange rates 2000 onward
Speculative
efficiency
*rethink efficiency I,II,III
*rational expectation hypothesis
*simons
*rational expectation hypothesis
*simons
Level K thinking
OLS for tool (method)
in econometric
OLS is linear approximation of relationships among variables y = B1 + B2 X
OLS is linear approximation of relationships among variables y = B1 + B2 X
3 Kinds of testing exists in OLS:
- checking validness of OLS “healthy conditions”
- testing the underpinning theory
- testing for statistical significance
- checking validness of OLS “healthy conditions”
- testing the underpinning theory
- testing for statistical significance
News related to international finance :
1. Fed policymakers downplay divisions on U.S. rate hike
2. China’s State Sector:
Bigger Than Ever
(http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-15/china-s-state-sector-bigger-than-ever)