Exchange Rate Behavior under Full Monetary Equilibrium: An Empirical Analysis / John H. Makin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Makin, John H.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w0647.

NBER working paper series no. w0647

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign exchange.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Exchange Rate Behavior under Full Monetary Equilibrium

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1981.

Cambridge : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1981.

Summary:

This paper aims to remedy difficulties with some extant empirical tests of the monetary approach to exchange rate determination. Four problems are addressed: explication of and allowance for real exchange rate changes; imposition of interest parity; use of the forward rate as an unbiased predictor of the spot rate; and modeling implications of official intervention in foreign exchange markets and of possible efforts to sterilize effects of intervention in the monetary base. Empirical tests conducted with monthly data on the dollar-DM exchange rate from March, 1973 -December,1979 do not permit rejection of the complex joint hypothesis represented by equations estimated to test the monetary approach. Still, there remained unexplained a large portion of the behavior of the dollar-DM exchange rate in the 1973-79 monthly sample employed. This result suggests that exchange rates may be viewed as prices determined in asset markets where a large and unsystematic flow of information, not captured by monetary or other variables, produces large, unsystematic movements.

Notes:

Print version record

March 1981.