The effects of foreign exchange risk and return on the demand for domestic balances

Ben Zion Zilberfarb

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Abstract

This paper provides an empirical evidence regarding the effects of foreign exchange risk and return on the demand for domestic balances. Unlike earlier studies which examine only one effect and thus may have been subjected to a misspecification problem, this paper includes both foreign exchange risk and return as explanatory variables in the money demand equation. The results lend limited support to the hypothesis that foreign exchange risk negatively affects money demand, and strongly indicate that foreign exchange return has a negative effect on the demand for domestic balances. Thus currency substitution seems to be relevant not just in developed economies, but in developing economies subject to foreign exchange controls, as well.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1359-1368
Number of pages10
JournalEuropean Economic Review
Volume32
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1988

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