Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48868 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series 1 No. 2011,18
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper re-investigates the implications of monetary policy rules on changes in exchange rate, in a risk-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy for market expectations. The analysis on the Deutsche mark, Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, and the British pound relative to the U.S. dollar from 1979 to 2008 shows that, through the expectations of future monetary policy, Taylor rule fundamentals are able to forecast changes in the exchange rate, even over short-term horizons of less than two years. Furthermore, the market expectation formation processes of short-term interest rates change over time and differ across countries, which contributes to the time varying relationship between exchange rates and macroeconomic fundamentals, together with the time varying currency risk premia and exchange rate forecast errors.
Subjects: 
Exchange Rate
Monetary Policy
Expectation
Learning
VAR
Consensus Forecast
JEL: 
F31
E52
D83
C32
ISBN: 
978-3-86558-731-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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