The Principles of Exchange Rate Determination in an International Financial Experiment

Charles Noussair, Charles Plott () and Raymond Riezman

Journal of Political Economy, 1997, vol. 105, issue 4, 822-61

Abstract: This paper reports the first experiments designed to explore the behavior of economies with prominent features of international finance. Two 'countries,' each with its own currency, were created. International trade could take place only through the operation of markets for currency. Prices of goods, as well as the exchange rate, evolve over time toward the predictions of the competitive general equilibrium model. However, both the law of one price and purchasing power parity can be rejected for reasons that do not appear in the literature. Patterns of international trade were as predicted by the law of comparative advantage. Copyright 1997 by the University of Chicago.

Date: 1997
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