Exchange Rate Expectations, the Forward Exchange Rate Bias and Risk Premia in Target Zones

Marianne Nessen

Open Economies Review, 1997, vol. 8, issue 2, 99-136

Abstract: Expected rates of depreciation within the target zone for the exchange rates of four Nordic countries during 1979–1989 are estimated. Combining these with expected rates of devaluation estimated by Edin and Vredin (1993) we obtain time-series of the overall expected exchange rate change. We can thus construct time-series of foreign exchange risk premia and expectational errors, following which we decompose the forward exchange rate bias into portions attributable to expectational errors and/or risk premia. The conclusion is that time-varying risk premia appear to be the dominant cause of deviations from uncovered interest parity while the role of expectational errors is less clear. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

Keywords: exchange rates; target zones; risk premia; forward rate bias (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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