Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119868 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2015/24
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a structural model of exchange rates where agents formulate their one-step ahead predictions based on social learning process and higher order beliefs. Individual choices are then aggregated and plugged into a rather standard macroeconomic model to derive the dynamics of exchange rates. Bayesian estimation of the structural parameters is implemented exploiting Foreign exchange Consensus Survey data of heterogeneous forecasts and fundamentals. Results show that higher order beliefs accounts for a large part of the total value, while public information play the most important role in determining individual expectations. Although the precision of the private signal is larger than the public one, information publicly revealed does exert a disproportionate influence, and differences in the estimated signals determine the equilibrium strategy of each agent as a combination between personal beliefs and higher order expectations.
Subjects: 
higher order beliefs
exchange rates
economic fundamentals
survey data
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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