IMF Working Papers

Structural Models of the Dollar

By Charles Adams, Bankim Chadha

November 1, 1990

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Charles Adams, and Bankim Chadha. Structural Models of the Dollar, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1990) accessed November 12, 2024
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Summary

This paper addresses several questions about the time series processes followed by dollar exchange rates. The stochastic process for exchange rates implied by structural models and the conditions under which they would be described by random walks are examined. Tests on the univariate time series for dollar exchange rates are undertaken to determine if there is evidence for departures from a random walk. Multivariate tests examine whether longer-run movements in the dollar are linked to those in other economic variables, and whether deviations from these long-run relationships contain information for predicting exchange rate movements.

Subject: Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate modelling, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Monetary base, Money, Purchasing power parity, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Canadian dollar, Current account, Deutsche mark, Dollar-Deutsche Mark exchange rate, Exchange rate adjustments, Exchange rate modelling, Exchange rate movement, Exchange rates, Mean reversion, Monetary base, Nominal interest rate, Null hypothesis, Pound sterling, Random walk, Random walk finding, Random walk property, Real exchange rates, U.S. dollar, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    54

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1990/102

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1021990

  • ISBN:

    9781451948349

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 38, No. 3, September 1991.