Exchange Rate Expectations

Exchange Rate Expectations PDF Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 145197020X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
This paper presents a brief survey of the empirical literature on survey-based exchange rate expectations. The literature in general supports the presence of a non-zero risk premium and rejects the hypothesis of rational expectations. The crucial result is that, while short-run expectations tend to move away from some long-run “normal” values, long-run expectations tend to regress toward them. If this nature of short-run expectations increases the volatility of exchange rate movements, there may be a basis for some official measure to minimize short-run exchange rate movements.