Behavioral Biases in Forward Rates as Forecasts of Future Exchange Rates: Evidence of Systematic Pessimism and Under-Reaction

Raj Aggarwal and Sijing Zong
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Sijing Zong: California State University-Stanislaus, U.S.A.

Multinational Finance Journal, 2008, vol. 12, issue 3-4, 241-277

Abstract: Even though the forward-spot relationship in currency markets is very important for policy makers and for corporate and investment managers, it remains a theoretical and empirical puzzle. In theory the forward rate should be an unbiased forecast of the future spot rate, but this hypothesis has little empirical support. For the currencies of the nine major industrialized countries, this paper documents that in spite of the very high trading volumes in currency markets, consistent with evidence for other asset markets, revisions in the forward rate forecasts of the future spot exchange rate reflect systematic pessimism and under-reaction to new information.

Keywords: exchange rates; forward bias; market rationality; under-reaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 F47 G14 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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