کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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974905 | 1479777 | 2016 | 26 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• This paper uses non-linear automated model selection to analyze the USD/BP and USD/JY.
• Several fundamentals are found to have non-linear effects significant at the 1% level.
• Larger changes in fundamentals often cause changes in the exchange rate at an increasing rate.
• Outliers and structural breaks are reduced when allowing for non-linearities.
• These results are robust to estimation with principal components.
This paper examines whether the explanatory power of exchange rate models can be improved by allowing for cross-country asymmetries and non-linear effects of fundamentals. Both appear to be crucial. The samples include the USD versus pound and yen from 1982:10 to 2013:10, and automated model selection is conducted with indicator saturation. Several non-linear effects are significant at 1%. Further, many of the indicators present in the linear models are eliminated once allowing for non-linearities; suggesting some of the structural breaks found in previous work were an artifact of the misspecified linear functional form. These conclusions are robust to estimation using principal components.
Journal: The North American Journal of Economics and Finance - Volume 37, July 2016, Pages 84–109