Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76113 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 639
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We analyse the workings of a simple non-linear exchange rate model in which agents hold different beliefs about the underlying model. We distinguish between chartists' and fundamentalists'. The non-linearities in the model originate from transactions costs and from the existence of non-linear adjustment dynamics in the goods market. We find, first, that the simple non-linear structure of the model is capable of generating a very complex exchange rate dynamics. Second, our model is capable of explaining some empirical puzzles concerning exchange rate behaviour, i.e. the disconnect' puzzle which says that the exchange rate is disconnected form its underlying fundamentals most of the time and the excess volatility puzzle.
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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