A chaotic model of the exchange rate: The role of fundamentalists and chartists

Open Economies Review - Tập 4 - Trang 351-379 - 1993
Paul de Grauwe1, Hans Dewachter1
1National Fund for Scientific Research, University of Leuven, Belgium

Tóm tắt

A monetary model of the exchange rate is constructed in which “fundamentalists” and “chartists” interact. It is shown that the non-linearity of this speculative dynamics leads to chaotic motion of the exchange rate. The model is also capable of generating some of the stylized facts of exchange rate dynamics.

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