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This paper provides a new perspective on the exchange rate disconnect puzzle by referring to the expectations building … mechanism in foreign exchange markets. We analyze the role of expectations regarding macroeconomic fundamentals for expected … expectations regarding GDP growth, inflation, interest rates, and current accounts. Our empirical findings show that fundamentals …
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This paper provides a new perspective on the exchange rate disconnect puzzle by referring to the expectations building … mechanism in foreign exchange markets. Therefore, we analyze the role of expectations regarding macroeconomic fundamentals for … expected exchange rate changes. In doing so, we assess data for 31 economies from 2002 to 2017 and consider expectations …
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This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty on both exchange rate expectations and forecast errors of professionals for … the adjustment of exchange rate expectations. Our findings are robust to different forecasting horizons and point to an …
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heterogeneity, we test in particular how the exchange rate elasticity may be a..ected by firm-level productivity, and how the …
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684 estimates for 108 countries. Because there are many potential causes of heterogeneity, I use Bayesian model averaging …
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first examines monetary models under uncovered interest parity and rational expectations, and then considers deviations from … UIP/rational expectations: foreign exchange risk premium, private information, near-rational expectations, and peso …
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forecasters believe in uncovered interest rate parity (UIP). Specifically, we test whether the interest rate expectations for … individual forecasters are in line with their exchange rate expectations using the UIP condition. This new approach allows us to …
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The position of countries in a network of external portfolio investments provides a novel macroeconomic characteristic to explain violations of uncovered interest rate parity. I derive a network centrality measure, where central countries are highly integrated with key suppliers of tradeable...
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We construct a multi-country affine term structure model that contains unspanned macroeconomic and foreign exchange risks. The canonical version of the model is derived and is shown to be easy to estimate. We show that it is important to impose restrictions (including global asset pricing, carry...
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In this study a regime switching approach is applied to estimate the chartist and fundamentalist (c&f) exchange rate model originally proposed by Frankel and Froot (1986). The c&f model is tested against alternative regime switching specifications applying likelihood ratio tests. Nested...
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