Exchange rate dynamics, expectations, and monetary policy

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This paper re-investigates the implications of monetary policy rules on changes in exchange rate, in a risk-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy for market expectations. The analysis on the Deutsche mark, Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, and the British pound relative to the U.S. dollar from 1979 to 2008 shows that, through the expectations of future monetary policy, Taylor rule fundamentals are able to forecast changes in the exchange rate, even over short-term horizons of less than two years. Furthermore, the market expectation formation processes of short-term interest rates change over time and differ across countries, which contributes to the time varying relationship between exchange rates and macroeconomic fundamentals, together with the time varying currency risk premia and exchange rate forecast errors.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-3-86558-731-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2011,18

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Foreign Exchange ; Monetary Policy ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
• Subject: Exchange Rate ; Monetary Policy ; Expectation ; Learning ; VAR ; Consensus Forecast ; Wechselkurs ; Geldpolitik ; Erwartungstheorie ; Lernprozess ; Schätzung ; US-Dollar ; Deutschland ; Kanada ; Japan ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Chen, Qianying
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsche Bundesbank
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48868
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET