Modeling and Forecasting the Metical-Rand Exchange Rate

Samuel Zita and Rangan Gupta

The IUP Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, vol. VI, issue 4, 63-90

Abstract: This paper investigates the ability of the Dornbusch (1976) sticky-price model for the nominal metical-rand exchange rate, over the period 1994:1-2005:4 in explaining the exchange rate movements of Mozambique. Based on the model, the authors find that there is a stable relationship between the exchange rate and the fundamentals. Gross domestic product and inflation differentials between Mozambique and South Africa play the major role in explaining the metical-rand exchange rate. However, when the Dornbusch (1976) model is re-estimated over the period of 1994:1-2003:4, and the out-of-sample forecast errors are compared with the atheoretical, Classical and Bayesian variants of the Vector Autoregressive (VAR) and Vector Error Correction (VEC) models, and models capturing alternative forms of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) of exchange rates, the sticky-price model performs poorer. Overall, the Bayesian VEC models (BVECMs) with relatively tight priors, are best suited for forecasting the metical-rand exchange rate, both in terms of out-of-sample forecasting and predicting turning points.

Date: 2008
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