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forecast errors, along with possible directional misprediction by the forward premium. The implications of bubbles for tests of … forward-rate predictive efficiency are discussed next. It is argued that the existence of bubbles is extremely difficult (if … between spot and forward exchange rates, it seems unlikely that there bubbles have been an important factor. Finally, the …
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There has been a long-running debate about whether stock market prices are determined by fundamentals. To date no consensus has been reached. An important issue in this debate concerns the circumstances in which deviations from fundamentals are consistent with rational behavior. A...
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The recently-developed fiscal theory of price level determination contends that there is an important class of policy …
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deterministic bubbles and stochastic bubbles, for a model of inflation and for a model of the evolution of price and quantity in the … market fora storable commodity, such as gold. The analysis focuses on stochastic bubbles as a possibility peculiarly … points to no compelling reason to rule out rational stochastic bubbles apriori, conventional behavioral assumptions imply …
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The paper presents new empirical results that elucidate the dynamics of the foreign exchange market. The first half of the paper is an updated study of the exchange rate expectations held by market participants, as reflected in responses to surveys, and contains the following conclusions. First,...
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The recent theory of exchange rate dynamics within a target zone holds that exchange rates under a currency bard are … rational bubbles does not occur in the foreign exchange market. In this paper we consider instead a setup in which the … the presence of bubbles is viable if the Central Bank accommodates speculative attacks when the latter are consistent with …
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We show analytically that in a rational expectations present value model, an asset price manifests near random walk behavior if fundamentals are I(1) and the factor for discounting future fundamentals is near one. We argue that this result helps explain the well known puzzle that fundamental...
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We investigate the Expectations Hypotheses of the term structure of interest rates and of the foreign exchange market using vector autoregressive methods for the U.S. dollar, Deutsche mark, and British pound interest rates and exchange rates. In addition to standard Wald tests, we formulate...
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This paper provides an empirical examination of the hypothesis that the forward exchange rate provides an quot;optimalquot; forecast of the future spot ex-change rate, for five currencies relative to the dollar. This hypothesis provides a convenient norm for examining the erratic behavior of...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between forward exchange rates,future spot rates and new information. A stochastic model of exchangerate determination is used to formally show how unanticipated changes in the exchange rate determinants (or "news") affect the spot rate. The empirical...
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