 Understanding the common dynamics of the emerging market currenciesMeltem Chadwick, Fatih Fazilet and Necati Tekatli Economic Modelling, 2015, vol. 49, issue C, 120-136 Abstract: The aim of this study is twofold. First, we examine if there exists a common movement among the currencies of emerging markets that implemented flexible exchange rate regime after 2000. Second, we examine whether this comovement is closely related to financial market conditions and macroeconomic fundamentals in emerging market economies. Our findings suggest that currencies of the emerging market economies have a common movement, which we name as “Exchange Rate Index”. We find that the Exchange Rate Index can be explained to a great extent by financial market indicators while macroeconomic fundamentals have relatively less power in understanding this common exchange rate pattern. The results particularly underline the importance of sovereign debt risk, equity return differentials and risk appetite. The relationship between financial variables and the Exchange Rate Index is significantly nonlinear, while the results for macroeconomic fundamentals do not show any nonlinearity. Keywords: Emerging market currencies; Dynamic factor model; Empirical exchange rate models; Nonlinear models; Factor-augmented vector autoregression (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:49:y:2015:i:c:p:120-136 DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.03.011 Access Statistics for this article Economic Modelling is currently edited by S. Hall and P. Pauly More articles in Economic Modelling from Elsevier |
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