Showing 21 - 30 of 26,712
This paper offers and tests a unique explanation for the exchange rate determination puzzle. It is not that exchange rates are unrelated to fundamentals, but rather when fundamentals undergo persistent changes it becomes important to measure their effect in terms of how they change relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204531
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406535
Sluggish adjustment of expectations to new information is rational in an environment characterized by information costs … expectations using data from Consensus Economics for eight emerging and industrial economies from 1999 until 2015. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892133
This paper shows that exchange rates respond to only the surprise component of an actual US monetary policy change and that failure to disentangle the surprise component from the actual monetary policy change can lead to an underestimation of the impact of monetary policy, or even to a false...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320908
day-to-day changes in expectations of future US monetary policy, in the context of a study of day-to-day exchange rate … changes. We analyze more than 12 years of daily exchange rate data and show that continuous day-to-day changes in expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320954
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533201
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532311
This study examines what role the concept of endogenous uncertainty can have in explaining a phenomenon of international financial markets, the forward discount bias. The forward discount bias puzzle is unexplained by models assuming economic agents have full knowledge of the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878167
We examine the predictive ability and consistency properties of exchange rate expectations for the dollar/euro using a … forecasting ability for time horizons from 3 to 9 months, although only for the 3-month ahead expectations we obtain marginal … evidence of unbiasedness and efficiency in the forecasts. As for the consistency properties of the exchange rate expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650316
This paper analyses the importance attached to the past behaviour of the exchange rate when forming expectations and … a strong and time-varying extrapolative component in exchange rate expectations. Agents attach more importance to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205039