Denna uppsats syfte är att ta reda på om euron är en internationell valuta och om euron kan konkurrera med dollarn om titeln som världens ledande valuta. Teori om valutamarknaden, en valutas uppgifter och vad som avgör vilken valuta som används internationellt behandlas och för att kunna svara på uppsatsens frågeställningar (syfte) redogörs siffror på eurons internationella användning. Sådana siffror visar att euron är en internationell valuta då den används i valutans funktioner internationellt, men att dollarn fortfarande är den världsledande valutan utan att vara särsklit hotad i sin ställning av euron.

Gold price hits record high more than ¢C1900 in 2011, so how to forecast gold price and whether the influence factor of gold price change over time become more interesting issues for people. The beginning of this paper tries to find out the reasonable gold price then cut the study period into 7 stages and examines the influence factor of gold price in each stage from 1972 to 2011. Finally, this research uses the recent influence factor to build a forecasting model and tests its performance. The empirical result has three parts. First, from the view of purchasing power at December 31, 1971, gold price is too high in the end of 2011. Secondly, influence factors of gold price will change over time. They usually alter with important economic events of the world. Thirdly, the forecasting model has good performance in both in-sample and out-of-sample backtesting, but if the influence factor had changed, the performance would be worse in out-of-sample backtesting.

In this thesis the relationship between Brent oil prices, LME copper prices, Turkish gold and silver spot prices, XU100 index, interest rate and exchange rate is examined. Their long run Granger causality relationship is investigated by looking at Wald statistics. The short run relationship between them is examined by using generalized impulse responses. The data range is from January 2, 2002 to February 24, 2011. Due to the oil crisis in 2008, we divide the data into three periods: January 2, 2002 to December 31 as first period, 2007, from January 1, 2008 to December 31 as second period, 2008 and January 1, 2009 and February 24, 2011 as third period. We conduct each test separately for these periods but in third period we use Toda-Yamamoto procedure since maximum order of integration is 1.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-118).

This thesis examines the empirical validity of the efficient market hypothesis, currency substitution, purchasing power parity theory, interest rate parity theory and the monetary approach to exchange rate for the foreign exchange markets of Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. The empirical results give support to the efficient market hypothesis, mixed evidence for the existence of currency substitution, a strong indication for the long run purchasing power parity theory, support for the inclusion of expectations variable in the interest parity theory, and rejection of the monetary approach to the exchange rate.

This study analyzes validity of the relative purchasing power parity (PPP) and the uncovered interest rate parity (IRP) theories for the dollar/euro exchange rate. The period of analysis is from 1990 to 2003. The dollar/euro exchange rate represents the currencies of a country, the USA, and a region, the Euro Area. The basic data needed for this study are the dollar/euro exchange rate, and the inflation and the interest rates for the USA and the Euro Area. Since the Euro Area was officially formed on January 1st, 1999, we had difficulty in finding the data for the Euro Area. For the lacking Euro Area data, synthetic values are created by using the individual data of Euro Area countries. These synthetic values are treated as the equivalents of the actual values and are used in the parity implied dollar/euro exchange rate calculations. The parity implied dollar/euro exchange rates are compared with the actual dollar/euro exchange rates. Our results indicate that the parity implied dollar/euro exchange rates are statistically significantly different from the actual dollar/euro exchange rates. In other words, both the PPP and the IRP theories do not hold for the dollar/euro exchange rate.

Submitted by Diego Makasevicius Barbosa (diego.ufrj@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-11-24T18:24:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Trabalho Final (Assinada).pdf: 1388964 bytes, checksum: 33e74306625e467409ddc031936ccfeb (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2017-12-08T16:45:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Trabalho Final (Assinada).pdf: 1388964 bytes, checksum: 33e74306625e467409ddc031936ccfeb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-08T16:46:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Trabalho Final (Assinada).pdf: 1388964 bytes, checksum: 33e74306625e467409ddc031936ccfeb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-25 / This paper proposes to apply a similar framework adopted by Diebold and Li (2006) to forecast the Brazilian term structure of the US dollar-denominated interest rates, which have been done through the well-known three factors model developed by Nelson-Siegel. The methodology used to find the lambda factor, which drives the decay velocity of interest rates, was the rolling window optimization where for each forecast was calculated the lambda that minimizes the root mean square error (RMSE) of Nelson and Siegel fit. Furthermore, an autoregressive model was used to estimate the latent factors and, consequently, the interest rate. The results obtained were analogous to those found by Diebold and Li, where the authors verified a good predictive capacity for the model when compared to the random walk and other models used as benchmark. / O presente trabalho concentra-se em fazer um exercício de previsão da curva de cupom cambial futura similar ao proposto por Diebold e Li (2006) para as treasuries americanas, onde os autores utilizam um modelo econométrico de três fatores, no caso o conhecido Nelson e Siegel. A metodologia adotada para encontrar o fator λ (lambda), parâmetro este que rege a velocidade de decaimento da taxa do cupom cambial, foi uma otimização utilizando uma janela móvel, onde para cada instante t é observado qual o lambda que minimizaria a raiz do erro quadrático médio (REQM) do fit do modelo de Nelson-Siegel. Em seguida é conduzido um modelo autoregressivo para estimar os fatores latentes e consequentemente a taxa de cupom cambial para o exercício. O resultado obtido foi em linha com o encontrado por Diebold e Li onde os autores constataram uma boa capacidade preditiva para o modelo quando comparado ao passeio aleatório, nosso benchmark.

O clássico Equilíbrio Econômico nunca foi realidade, especialmente após as primeiras crises dos mercados financeiros. Hoje se sabe que as economias estão longe da situação de equilíbrio, sendo vistas mais como um processo em construção do que um estado estático propriamente dito. Se assemelham a um sistema estocástico, e não determinístico como um dia se pensou. O Brasil é um país jovem, e seus sistemas econômico e político ainda estão em formação. Tendo em vista todas as mudanças e crises que o país tem sofrido em sua história recente, este estudo busca uma forma alternativa para que tais eventos possam ser detectados e, principalmente, de certa forma antecipados, para que as providências cabíveis possam ser tomadas a tempo de se evitar grandes perdas financeiras. Para tal, as medidas de Complexidade de SDL e LMC são aplicadas às séries do câmbio dolar-real, Ibovespa e CDS Brasil e avaliadas durante eventos de crises. Detectados os principais eventos de cada série, \"volta-se no tempo\", ao início da crise, e avalia-se, dada a informação disponível naquele momento, a possibilidade de se detectar a crise em seus primeiros estágios. Ao fim, conclui-se que as Medidas de Complexidade LMC e SDL são robustas na detecção de aumentos de volatilidade nos dados de séries financeiras. Assim sendo, apresentam grande potencial como indicadores precoces de crises financeiras. Para tal, não são necessários cálculos extensivos, nem grandes históricos de dados; e também não são necessárias hipóteses sobre a distribuição de probabilidades destes dados. Acredita-se que este seja o primeiro passo em direção à construção de um monitor de crises em tempo real. / The classical Economic Equilibrium has never been a reality, especially after the first financial markets crisis events. It is known nowadays that economies are far from their Equilibrium, they are seen more as a process under construction, not a static state; a stochastic instead of deterministic process, as it was thought before. Brazil is a young country, hence its economic and political systems are still maturing. In light of all the changes and crises it has been suffering in the recent history, this research seeks for an alternative mechanism to detect and anticipate these crisis events, in order to avoid massive financial losses. To this end, the LMC and SDL Complexity Measures are applied to the Dollar-Real exchange rates, Ibovespa and Brazilian CDS time series during crisis events. After detecting the main events, the idea is to \"turn back in time\", to the events\' inception, and analyse if, given the limited amount of information on that time, the crises could be detected on their early stages. Finally, this research concludes that both LMC and SDL Complexity Measures are robust in detecting volatility increases on the financial series, revealing good potential as crises early warning. However, no extensive calculus, large samples, or strong assumptions about the data probability distributions are needed to this aim. Therefore, these results represent the very first step towards a crises real time monitor.

Magister Economicae - MEcon / This study analyses the impact of Namibia’s currency peg on its domestic inflation. This is because theoretical argument suggests that currency peg (fixed exchange rate) provides nominal anchor for domestic price level, in particular when the domestic currency is pegged to a stable foreign currency. Following the method of hypothesis testing, data on Namibia and South Africa are used in this regard. Three main findings emerged from this study. Firstly, it was shown that the two inflation rates are positively correlated.Secondly, the study shows that there is no statistical significance difference between the inflation rates of the two countries. This gives an indication that the currency peg served as a nominal anchor, because as the SA inflation rate came down, so did the Namibian inflation rate. Thirdly, the study also shows that the growth of money stock in Namibia does not deviate from the growth of money stock in SA. This gives an indication that the authorities have maintained the peg through control of monetary growth.

This study examines the American Dollar (USD) denominated currency returns of five developing market currencies for the presence of the day-of-the-week effect. Daily data from January 1995 to February 2008 is examined, and is split into two subperiods, SP1 (1995 - 2002) and SP2 (2003 - February 2008). Currency returns are non-normally distributed across the full data set and SP1 , but tend towards normality in SP2. As such non-parametric tests are used to test the equality of the first four moments across days of the week. Tests on the first moment show that two of the currencies do not show any evidence of the day-of-the-week effect. However, evidence of the day-of-the-week effect is found in the other three currencies in SP1, although the effect disappears or weakens significantly in SP2. Little evidence of the day-of-the-week effect is found in tests on the second moment. The hypothesis of equal higher moments across currency returns is rejected for almost all of the weekday pairs for all five currencies in SP1 , but in SP2 the hypothesis of equal higher moments can only be rejected for a single pair of weekdays for one currency. This indicates the disappearance of the day-of-the-week effect across higher moments in SP2. Thus, the study finds that the day-of-the-week effect is present across the first moment and higher moments in the returns to most currencies in SP1 , but has disappeared for all five currencies in SP2. / KMBT_363 / Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in