Uncertainty and realized jumps in the pound-dollar exchange rate: evidence from over one century of data

Gkillas Konstantinos (), Rangan Gupta and Vortelinos Dimitrios I. ()
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Gkillas Konstantinos: Department of Accounting and Finance, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Crete, Greece
Vortelinos Dimitrios I.: Department of Accounting and Finance, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Crete, Greece; and Lincoln Business School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2023, vol. 27, issue 1, 25-47

Abstract: We study the importance of economic uncertainty so as to predict realized jumps (hereafter jumps) in the pound-dollar exchange rate. The empirical analysis covers the time period from February 1900 to May 2018 on a monthly basis, incorporating several market states, including various booms and crashes. First, we apply a standard linear Granger causality test in order to identify causal effects from economic uncertainty to jumps. We show that the standard linear Granger causality test fails to capture such casual effects. Providing the misspecification of the linear model, we next make use of a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles test. This test allows us to take into account the substantial evidence of nonlinearity along with the structural breaks between economic uncertainty and jumps. In applying this data-driven robust procedure, we find strong evidence of uncertainty causing jumps of the dollar-pound exchange rate. These results are robust over the entire conditional distribution of jumps, exhibiting the strongest impact at the lowest conditional quantiles considered. In addition, our results are generally found to be robust to alternative measures of uncertainty, jumps generated at a daily frequency based on shorter samples of intraday data, and across three other dollar-based exchange rates.

Keywords: exchange rates; realized jumps; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1515/snde-2020-0083

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