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ABSENCE OF CHAOS AND 1/f SPECTRA, BUT EVIDENCE OF TAR NONLINEARITIES, IN THE CANADIAN EXCHANGE RATE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

APOSTOLOS SERLETIS  and
ASGHAR SHAHMORADI
APOSTOLOS SERLETIS
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
ASGHAR SHAHMORADI
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
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Abstract

This paper uses daily observations for the Canadian dollar–U.S. dollar exchange rate over the recent flexible exchange-rate period (from January 2, 1974, to October 28, 2002), and various tests from dynamical systems theory, such as a chaos test, a self-organized criticality test, and a threshold effects test, to support a stochastic nonlinear origin for the series.

Keywords

Threshold EffectsSelf-Organized CriticalityLyapunov Exponent
Type
NOTE
Information
Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , September 2004 , pp. 543 - 551
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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