Exchange rates play a crucial role in the global economy, influencing trade, investment, and economic stability. Understanding the various measurements and regimes of exchange rates is essential for ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: CNP/Zuma Press/Shutterstock/ Composite: Mark Kelly Nobel economics laureate Robert ...

The foreign exchange rate, often abbreviated as “forex” or “F.X.,” is a fundamental concept in international finance and trade. It plays a pivotal role in the global economy and impacts individuals, ...

Learn how exchange rate fluctuations impact businesses and discover effective strategies to manage economic exposure and safeguard profitability.

Discover how a nation's balance of payments can affect its currency's exchange rate and the dynamics of its relationship in ...

Many economists argue that a flexible exchange rate regime is preferable to a fixed exchange rate regime because it helps to insulate the domestic economy from adverse external shocks. For example, ...

This Economic Letter is based on a presentation Mark Spiegel prepared for a panel on “Optimal Currency Arrangements for Emerging Market Economies: The Experience of Latin America and Asia,” organized ...

Purchase or sale of the currencies of other nations by a central bank for the purpose of influencing foreign exchange rates or maintaining orderly foreign exchange markets. Also called ...

This paper assesses the stabilization properties of fixed versus flexible exchange rate regimes and aims to answer this research question: Does greater exchange rate flexibility help an economy’s ...

This paper provides new evidence on the exchange rate passthrough to domestic inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using both bilateral US dollar exchange rate and the nominal effective exchange rate ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday unified all exchange rates within the economy into the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window. In a circular to authorised dealers signed by CBN Director, ...