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Titre Le Franc français et la récente crise monétaire européenne
Auteur Cecilia Jona-Lasinio
Mir@bel Revue Economie et prévision
Numéro no 140-141, 1999/4-5 Economie des marché financiers
Rubrique / Thématique
Économie des marchés financiers
Page 147-159
Résumé anglais The French Franc and the Recent European Currency Crisis by Cecilia Jona-Lasinio The 1992 and 1993 currency crises demonstrated the enormous pressures that can be raised against official exchange rate parities when investors perceive that significant exchange rate realignments may be imminent. In this paper I propose an empirical analysis of the 1 992- 1 993 crises to establish whether speculators were able to perceive the exact timing of the devaluations and if and how the economic and political news influenced their devaluation expectations. In particular, I analyse the expected timing of devaluation of the French Franc relative to the Deutschemark before the 1 992 and 1 993 currency crisis. The empirical analysis shows that before the occurrence of both crisis agents were awareof the imminence of the devaluation and that they were very sensitive to the news spread daily over the markets.
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