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Record Nr.

UNINA9910703352503321

Autore

Flood Robert P

Titolo

A Model of Stochastic Process Switching / / Robert P. Flood, Peter M. Garber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1981

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System], , [1982]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w0626

Altri autori (Persone)

GarberPeter M

Soggetti

Foreign exchange - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

February 1981.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 15).

Sommario/riassunto

In this paper we develop a rational expectations exchange rate model which is capable of confronting explicitly agents' beliefs about a future switch in exogenous driving processes. In our set-up the agents know with certainty both the initial exogenous process and the new process to be adopted when the switch occurs. However, they do not know with certainty the timing of future switch as it depends on the path followed by the (stochastic) exchange rate. The model is discussed in terms of the British return to pre-war parity, in 1925. However, our results are applicable to a variety of situations where process switching depends on the motion of a key endogenous variable.