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Seasonal Flutuations and Equilibrium Models of Exchange Rate
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Abstract Most of the evidence on dynamic equilibrium exchange rate models is based on seasonally adjusted consumption data. Equilibrium models have not worked well in explaining the actual exchange rate. However, the use of seasonally adjusted data might be responsible for the spurious rejection of the model... view more
Most of the evidence on dynamic equilibrium exchange rate models is based on seasonally adjusted consumption data. Equilibrium models have not worked well in explaining the actual exchange rate. However, the use of seasonally adjusted data might be responsible for the spurious rejection of the model. This paper presents a new equilibrium model for the exchange rates that incorporates seasonal preferences. The fit of the model to the data is evaluated for five industrialized countries using seasonally unadjusted data. Our findings indicate that a model with seasonal preferences can generate monthly time series of the exchange rate without seasonality even when the variables that theoretically determine the exchange rate show clear seasonal behaviours. Further, the model can generate theoretical exchange rates with the same order of integration than actual exchange rates, and in some cases, with the same stochastic trend.... view less
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 2635-2652
Journal
Applied Economics, 41 (2009) 20
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840701222603
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)