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The credibility of Hong Kong's currency board system: Looking through the prism of MS-VAR models with time-varying transition probabilities

​This paper takes seriously the idea that the coefficients of a VAR and the variance of shocks may be time-varying and so employs a Markov regime-switching VAR model to describe and analyse the time-varying credibility of Hong Kong's currency board system. The endogenously estimated discrete regime shifts are made dependent on macroeconomic fundamentals. This enables us to determine which changes in macroeconomic variables can trigger switches between the low and high credibility regimes. We carry out extensive testing to search for the most appropriate specification of the Markov regime-switching model. We find strong evidence of regime switching behaviour that portrays the timevarying nature of credibility in the historical data. Our own conditional volatility index provides anticipatory signals and amplifies the regime-switching transition probabilities. Publication

ISBN
978-952-6699-94-3
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: BOFIT Discussion Papers ; No. 15/2014

Classification
Wirtschaft
Bayesian Analysis: General
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Foreign Exchange
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Subject
Markov regime-switching VAR
exchange rate regime credibility
Hong Kong

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Blagov, Boris
Funke, Michael
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2014

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Blagov, Boris
  • Funke, Michael
  • Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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