The coordination channel of foreign exchange intervention has been proposed as a means by which foreign exchange market intervention may be effective when misalignments of the exchange rate are generated by non-fundamental influences and the return to equilibrium is hampered by a coordination...

In this paper, we re-assess the role of risk premiums in FX survey forecasts. Given that market makers in foreign exchange are both price setters and contributors to surveys such as Consensus Forecasts or FX4Casts we may expect risk premiums of FX liquidity provision to emerge in forecast data...

In this paper we propose a generalisation of the noise trader transmission mechanism to examine the impact of central bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectation exchange rate model intervention operations are supposed to provide support for chartist or fundamentalist...

We investigate the determinants of forecast heterogeneity in the JPY/USD market using panel data from Consensus Economics. We find that past exchange-rate volatility increases forecast dispersion, while foreign exchange intervention of the Japanese Ministry of Finance dampens expectation...

We use oil price forecasts from the Consensus Economic Forecast poll to analyze how forecasters form their expectations. Our findings seem to indicate that the extrapolative as well as the regressive expectation formation hypothesis play a role. Standard measures of forecast accuracy reveal...