Foreign exchange returns exhibit behavior difficult to reconcile with standard theoretical models. This paper asks whether the recent findings of long swings in exchange rates between appreciating and depreciating periods affect estimates of the foreign exchange risk premium. We demonstrate how...

Recent empirical studies suggest that nominal interest rates and expected inflation do not move together one for one in the long run, a finding at odds with many theoretical models. This paper shows that these results can be deceptive when the process followed by inflation shifts infrequently....

This paper compares the true, ex-ante forecasting performance of a micro-based model against both a standard macro model and a random walk. In contrast to existing literature, which is focused on longer horizon forecasting, we examine forecasting over horizons from one day to one month (the...

Macroeconomic models of nominal exchange rates perform poorly. In sample, R 2 statistics as high as 10 percent are rare. Out of sample, these models are typically out-forecast by a naïve random walk. This paper presents a model of a new kind. Instead of relying exclusively on macroeconomic...