Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128043 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 07.01
Publisher: 
Swiss National Bank, Study Center Gerzensee, Gerzensee
Abstract: 
Two well-known, but seemingly contradictory, features of exchange rates are that they are close to a random walk while at the same time exchange rate changes are predictable by interest rate differentials. In this paper we investigate whether these two features of the data may in fact be related. In particular, we ask whether the predictability of exchange rates by interest differentials naturally results when participants in the FX market adopt random walk expectations. We find that random walk expectations can explain the forward premium puzzle, but only if FX portfolio positions are revised infrequently. In contrast, with frequent portfolio adjustment and random walk expectations, we find that high interest rate currencies depreciate much more than what UIP would predict.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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