This paper applies the same methodology applied by Essayyad et al. (2009) to the construction of an alternative Euro dollar index. Specifically, it employs multivariate statistical tests to identify weights based on 12 economic and financial factors that are deemed theoretically more relevant in...

This research is an inter-temporal update of an empirical paper published by Essayyad et al., which is based on work of Loretan and Nardo et al. We continue to employ the same principal component technique, to construct an alternative US Dollar Index to gauge movements in currency markets. The...