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This paper examines the existence of heterogeneous expectations among market participants in the foreign exchange market by using a data set of individual market expectations for the major currencies, and approaches the formation of expectations from a bounded-rationality approach. We find that...
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This paper examines the dispersion of beliefs of market participants in the foreign exchange market and their relative role in forming exchange rate expectations. We find distinct variations in the level of dispersion and document that dispersion arises because of a combined effect of market...
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While in previous literature foreign currency exposure is estimated to be surprisingly small and insignificant, we question in this paper the rationality assumption and show that the traditional use of realized exchange rate changes to approximate unexpected currency shocks leads to a strong...
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Extensive regulatory changes and technological advances have transformed banking systems to a great extent. Banks have reacted to the challenges posed by the new operating environment by creating new products and expanding their activities to some uncharted business areas. In this paper, we...
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Disagreement is used as a measure of both investor heterogeneity and uncertainty. We study whether disagreement captures heterogeneity or uncertainty for the foreign exchange market. We do so by relating disagreement to alternative measures of uncertainty, as well as by taking advantage of the...
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on heterogeneous beliefs and asset price dynamics that challenges the traditional rational agent framework. Emphasis is given to the validation and estimation of (dynamic) heterogeneous agent models that have their roots in the agent-based literature....
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