Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2350 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 962
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
When nontraded goods prices are accounted for consistently and genuine stock data on bilateral foreign asset holdings is employed, a modified sticky-price exchange rate model by far outperforms the benchmark random walk-model in empirically forecasting the D-mark/dollar parity out of sample. Superior forecast performance holds both over long horizons and from the first step. Extending the sample back to the Bretton Woods period leaves the model's parameters and its performance virtually unaffected. By implication, the explanatory variables of the model show a pattern of exchange rate regime-dependent volatility that is similar to that of the real exchange rate itself.
Subjects: 
real interest rates
net foreign assets
nontradables prices
fixed/floating exchange rate regimes
real exchange rates
JEL: 
F31
F32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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