Business Economics and Public Policy Papers
Title
The High-Frequency Response of Exchange Rates and Interest Rates to Macroeconomic Announcements
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
5-2007
Publication Source
Journal of Monetary Economics
Volume
54
Issue
4
Start Page
1051
Last Page
1068
DOI
10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.05.015
Abstract
The joint movements of exchange rates and U.S. and foreign term structures over short-time windows around macro announcements are studied using a 14-year span of high-frequency data. In order to evaluate whether the joint effects can be reconciled with conventional theory, the implications of these joint movements for changes in expected future exchange rates and changes in foreign exchange risk premia are deduced. For several real macro announcements, a stronger than expected release appreciates the dollar today, and must either (i) lower the risk premium for holding foreign currency rather than dollars, or (ii) imply net expected dollar depreciation over the ensuing decade.
Keywords
data releases, exchange rates, uncovered interest parity, overshooting
Recommended Citation
Faust, J., Rogers, J. H., Wang, S., & Wright, J. H. (2007). The High-Frequency Response of Exchange Rates and Interest Rates to Macroeconomic Announcements. Journal of Monetary Economics, 54 (4), 1051-1068. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.05.015
Date Posted: 27 November 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.