Arbeitspapier

Forecasting the Brazilian Real and the Mexican Peso: Asymmetric Loss, Forecast Rationality, and Forecaster Herding

Using forecasts of the Brazilian real and the Mexican peso, we analyze the shape of the loss function of exchange-rate forecasters and the rationality of their forecasts. We find a substantial degree of cross-sectional heterogeneity with respect to the shape of the loss function. While some forecasters seem to forecasts under an asymmetric loss function, symmetry of the loss function cannot be rejected for other forecasters. An asymmetric loss function does not necessarily make survey data of exchange-rate forecasts look rational, and the loss function seems to depend not only on the forecast error.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DEP (Socioeconomics) Discussion Papers - Macroeconomics and Finance Series ; No. 2/2012

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Foreign Exchange
Expectations; Speculations
Thema
Exchange rate
Forecasting
Loss function

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fritsche, Ulrich
Pierdzioch, Christian
Ruelke, Jan-Christoph
Stadtmann, Georg
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Hamburg University, Department Socioeconomics
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fritsche, Ulrich
  • Pierdzioch, Christian
  • Ruelke, Jan-Christoph
  • Stadtmann, Georg
  • Hamburg University, Department Socioeconomics

Entstanden

  • 2012

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