Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy Uncertainty
Andrea Vedolin,
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi and
Philippe Mueller ()
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Andrea Vedolin: London School of Economics
No 138, 2016 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics
Abstract:
We document that a trading strategy that is short the U.S. dollar and long other currencies exhibits significantly larger excess returns on days with scheduled Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcements. We also show that these excess returns (i) are higher for currencies with higher interest rate differentials vis-a`-vis the U.S.; (ii) increase with uncertainty about monetary policy; and (iii) intensify when the Federal Reserve adopts a policy of monetary easing. We interpret these excess returns as a compensation for monetary policy uncertainty within a parsimonious model of constrained financiers who intermediate global demand for currencies.
Date: 2016
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