Exchange Rate Risk Under Generalized Floating: Eight Asian Countries

Exchange Rate Risk Under Generalized Floating: Eight Asian Countries
Date of publication:  2009
Publisher:  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Number of pages:  20
Code:  RND17

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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.

Co-publication: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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  • Exchange Rate Risk Under Generalized Floating: Eight Asian Countries
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