Author : Pradumna Bickram Rana
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
ISBN 13 : 9971902192
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)
Book Synopsis Exchange Rate Risk Under Generalized Floating by : Pradumna Bickram Rana
Download or read book Exchange Rate Risk Under Generalized Floating written by Pradumna Bickram Rana and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1980 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines whether exchange rate risk (defined as the variety of nominal and price-adjusted import-weighed exchange rates) has increased in the present system of generalized floating for eight Asian developing countries. The first major finding is that the samples of import-weighted exchange rates conform better to non-normal stable Paretian distributions than to normal ones; sample standard deviation is therefore an erratic and misleading measure of variability. The second is that the scale and Gini's mean difference measures of variability indicate that exchange rate risk has increased substantially - in nominal terms more than in real terms and in the short run more than in the long run.