A consumption-based approach to exchange rate predictability

Jair Ojeda-Joya

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We study whether the implications of an international consumption-based asset-pricing model are useful to provide out-sample predictability evidence for the real exchange rate. This model implies a predictability equation that results from the presence of both internal and external consumption habits in the utility function. In this equation, domestic, U.S. and world consumption growth are predictors of the real exchange rate. Our empirical exercises confirm this connection by providing evidence of short-term predictability on the bilateral rates of 15 out of 17 countries vis-à-vis the U.S. over the post Bretton-Woods float. A non-linear GMM estimation of some parameters of the model also brings about evidence of the presence of consumption habits in the utility function.

Keywords: exchange rates; out-of-sample; predictability; asset pricing; habits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 F31 F47 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-05-24
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Working Paper: A Consumption-Based Approach to Exchange Rate Predictability (2014)
Working Paper: A Consumption-Based Approach to Exchange Rate Predictability (2014)
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