 Foreign currency forecasting in emerging markets: What can stock and bond markets tell us?Kate Phylaktis and Ehab Yamani Journal of Empirical Finance, 2025, vol. 83, issue C Abstract: This paper provides the first comprehensive investigation on the informational role of financial market information in the profitable predictability of exchange rates in an out-of-sample (OOS) context in emerging markets. Within a comparative analysis framework across developed and emerging countries, we examine if international stock and bond returns can be exploited as a predictor for future spot exchange rate changes (statistical test), and if an economically profitable trading strategy can be executed (economic test). Our central finding is that currency traders can beat emerging markets conditionally on correctly predicting the direction of the OOS forecasted currency returns induced by emerging stock and, to a lesser extent, by bond market returns. By contrast, this profitability is not evident in developed countries data. This asymmetric evidence, on the power of stock and bond returns in the profitable predictability of currency returns across developed and emerging countries, is affected by the country-specific institutional quality. Keywords: Exchange rates; Out of sample predictability; Emerging markets; Equity returns; Bond market returns (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:empfin:v:83:y:2025:i:c:s0927539825000635 DOI: 10.1016/j.jempfin.2025.101641 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Empirical Finance is currently edited by R. T. Baillie, F. C. Palm, Th. J. Vermaelen and C. C. P. Wolff More articles in Journal of Empirical Finance from Elsevier |
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