Empirical Features of the Second-Generation Target Zone Models: Mean-Reverting Fundamentals and Endogenous Devaluation Risk.
We show that within Bertola and Svensson's second-generation target zone model, mean-reverting interventions and endogenous devaluation risk are closely interrelated. Over the period 1983-93 we analyze the degree of mean reversion in the underlying fundamental process as well as the term structure of interest rate differentials vis-a-vis Germany for six Exchange Rate Mechanism currencies. For Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands, and for Belgium after 1990 our estimates are broadly in line with the first-generation target zone model, whereas those for France and Italy are in accordance with the model that allows for endogenous devaluation risk. Copyright 1999 by Oxford University Press.
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1999
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Authors: | Knot, Klaas H W ; Dijkstra, Theo K ; De Haan, Jakob |
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Economic Inquiry. - Western Economic Association International - WEAI. - Vol. 37.1999, 3, p. 489-509
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