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In recent years, because of the trading liberalization and growing direct investment of Asia Pacific area, the economic activities of countries in this area have shown strong interrelationship. And, to become the financial center of Asia Pacific area, Taiwan has widen the control of foreign exchange,this made the change of exchange rate become more severe, and investors have to face higher risk than before. In this situation, exchange rate forecast becomes more and more important, but to forecast the exchange rate directly involves too many variables so that it is not so easy to do this. Thus, this research will analyze the interaction relationship of some Asia Pacific countries which are more integrated with Taiwan in financial market in recent years, and hope to offer investors some useful information to avoid the exchange rate risk.The main conclusions of this research are as follows:1. According to the impulse reaction analysis, the convergence of impulse reaction of each currency is insignificant, this reflects that the exchange rate market of Asia Pacific area has no information reaction efficiency.2. According to the error variance decomposition, Japanese yen has highest self-explained ability, the next are Chinese renminbi yuan, South Korea won and Hong Kong dollar, and Malaysian ringgit has the lowest self-explained ability.3. Japanese Yen and Chinese renminbi yuan have rare interaction with other currencies, this reflects that it is hard to use the change information of other currencies to forecast theirs. 4. In ASEAN4, Malaysian ringgit is the leading currency, and Philippine pesos is the following currency.5. ASEAN4 is the following group in Asian Pacific area.6. In Asian new industry countries, except the independence of Hong Kong dollar, there is significant interaction between South Korean won , New Taiwan dollar and Singapore dollars.7. South Korea won has more influence over ASEAN4 than other Asian new industry countries.8. In spite of its independence, Japanese yen still has relative strong influence over Asian new industry countries.9. New Taiwan dollar has no special leading or following position in exchange market of Asia Pacific area.
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