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Record Nr.

UNINA9910703320303321

Autore

Meese Richard

Titolo

Was it Real?  The Exchange Rate-Interest Differential Relation, 1973-1984 / / Richard Meese, Kenneth Rogoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1985

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System], , [1985]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w1732

Classificazione

F

Altri autori (Persone)

RogoffKenneth

Soggetti

International Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

October 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-29).

Sommario/riassunto

The main result of Meese and Rogoff [1983 a,b] is that small structural exchange rate models forecast major dollar exchange rates no better than a naive random walk model. This result obtains even when the model forecasts are based on actual realized values of the explanatory variables. Here we improve our methodology by implementing a new test of out-of-sample fit; the test is valid even for overlapping long-horizon forecasts. We find that the dollar exchange rate models perform somewhat less badly over the recent Reagan regime period than over the episodes studied previously. The methodology is also applied to the mark/yen and mark/pound exchange rates, and to real exchange rates. Finally, we test to see if real exchange rates and real interest differentials can be represented as a cointegrated process. The evidence suggests that there is no single common influence inducing nonstationarity in both real exchange rates and real interest differentials.