Miller provides a fresh
perspective on balance of payments and exchange rate theories, including intertemporal
open economy models that focus on the optimum current account. To this end, he proves that
any nonzero balance of payments must always be associated with a disequilibrium in either
a commodity or an asset market. In this rigorous yet readable book, important welfare and
policy implications are carefully examined. Miller develops a new theory of the balance of
payments associated with commodity market disequilibrium, a loanable funds theory of
exchange rate and a modern foreign exchange market theory of the exchange rate that
incorporates capital flows.
The book also details
fifteen puzzling facts associated with open economies and the FX market. After reviewing
existing explanations to these puzzles, Miller shows how each of the above new theories
provides new, often unified solutions to them.
International finance
practitioners, students and scholars of economics and finance, and MBA students will all
find this book fresh and enlightening.
Norman C. Miller is the
Julian G. Lange Professor of Economics in the Richard T. Farmer School of Business
Administration at Miami University, Ohio, USA.
204 pages