Exchange rate market efficiency and new information

This paper uses a multi-currency approach to analyze the relationship between forward exchange rates, future spot rates and new information. The empirical results tend to support the hypothesis that the exchange rate can be expressed as a function of factors known in advance and ‘news’.     

A note on the dynamic adjustment of the demand for international reserves by LDC's

The dynamics of the adjustment of the demand for international reserves by LDC's is analyzed. Using a GLS procedure on pooled cross section-time series data it is showed that, contrary to previous results, the speed at which actual reserves adjust to desired reserves is very fast: in one year 95 percent of this adjustment is completed.     

Implications of marketing and promotion for the development of tourism

The author considers some oft-neglected aspects of marketing and promotion in the development of tourism, with special reference to the implications of travel marketing and promotion for the tourism industries of developing countries.