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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788411403321

Autore

Isard Peter

Titolo

Uncovered Interest Parity / / Peter Isard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-5687-7

1-4527-4409-2

1-283-10126-2

9786613823311

1-4519-0890-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (14 pages)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Banks and Banking

Foreign Exchange

Money and Monetary Policy

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Currency

Foreign exchange

Finance

Monetary economics

Interest rate parity

Spot exchange rates

Exchange rates

Currencies

Forward exchange rates

Interest rates

Money

United Kingdom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

This paper provides an overview of the uncovered interest parity assumption. It traces the history of the interest parity concept, summarizes evidence on the empirical validity of uncovered interest parity, and discusses different interpretations of the evidence and the implications for macroeconomic analysis. The uncovered interest parity assumption has been an important building block in multiperiod models of open economies, and although its validity is strongly challenged by the empirical evidence, at least at short time horizons, its retention in macroeconomic models is supported on pragmatic grounds by the lack of much empirical support for existing models of the exchange risk premium.