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In light of the recent discussion regarding the measurement of uncertainty and its impact on economic activity, this paper derives forward-looking measures of uncertainty and directional expectations for the CHF/EUR exchange rate based on over-the-counter option data and analyses its impact on...
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Firstly, we show that domestic prices of net importer countries incorporate a risk premium, driven by higher moments of future nominal exchange rate returns and secondly, using US dollar exchange rates against three currencies of major net exporting countries to the US such as Canada, Japan and...
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The paper analyzes the consumption-real exchange rate anomaly in a multi-country model with complete markets under various preference specifications: (i) standard time-additive preferences; (ii) recursive preferences of Epstein and Zin; and (iii) habit formation preferences of Campbell and...
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Empirical relationships between crude oil prices and exchange rates of oil exporting countries tend to vary over time. I use econometric models of the norwegian and canadian nominal exchange rates to investigate whether such time-variation could reflect shifts in the key oil price drivers over...
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In this paper, we analyse the relationship between the currency carry return and volatility and liquidity risk factors … outperformance for volatility ones especially the global FX volatility risk factor. Consistent with the poor performance of currency … carry trades during high FX volatility regime, we also show that the well-established negative slope coefficient in the Fama …
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This paper proposes an explanation of the shifts in the volatility of exchange rate returns that relies on standard … may lead agents to focus excessively on a subset of fundamental variables. As a result, exchange rate volatility is mainly … determined by the dynamics of this subset of fundamentals. As agents switch between models the nominal exchange rate volatility …
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We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …
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We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …
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the volatility for over hundred countries around the world. We used the monthly political risk data from the International … governance. Further monthly volatility is constructed from the daily exchange rate returns within each month for the period of … the floating exchange rate. The results also confirm that there is more volatility in exchange rate when political …
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the trade-offs between current and expected future volatility. We show that uncertainty matters even to risk neutral firms … not to pass-through increases in volatility to prices. Moreover, ignoring these intertemporal considerations in empirical …
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