Arbeitspapier

Individual exchange rate forecasts and expected fundamentals

This paper suggests that exchange rates are related to economic fundamentals over medium-term horizons, such as a month or longer. We find from a large panel of individual professionals' forecasts that good exchange rate forecasts benefit from the proper understanding of fundamentals, specifically good interest rate forecasts. This relation is robust to individual fixed effects and further controls. Reassuringly, this relation is stronger during obvious fundamental misalignment. This occurs when exchange rates substantially deviate from their PPP values, when interest rate differentials are high and when exchange rates are less influenced by strong momentum.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 11-062

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Foreign Exchange
International Finance Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Thema
Exchange Rate Determination
Individual Expectations
Macroeconomic Fundamentals

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dick, Christian D.
MacDonald, Ronald
Menkhoff, Lukas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dick, Christian D.
  • MacDonald, Ronald
  • Menkhoff, Lukas
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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