Target Zones and Forward Rates in a Model with Repeated Realignments

March 1, 1992

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Gordon M. Bodnar, and Leonardo Bartolini. Target Zones and Forward Rates in a Model with Repeated Realignments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1992) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

This paper studies the implications of the imperfect credibility of an exchange rate target zone on the term structure of forward premia. The relationship between spot and forward exchange rates of different maturities reflects the possibility of repeated realignments of the exchange rate band. The credibility of the commitment to the target zone implicit in forward market data can be extracted by estimating the model. Application to French/German data indicates that the model is capable of matching observed patterns of interest rate differentials during the EMS, while yielding estimates of the credibility parameters that accord with the experience of the FF/DM exchange rate during the 1980s.

Subject: Crawling peg, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Forward exchange rates, Managed exchange rates, Spot exchange rates

Keywords: Central bank, Crawling peg, Exchange rate, Exchange rate band, Exchange rates, Forward exchange rates, Forward market, Forward rate, Interest rate differential, Managed exchange rates, Premia--spot exchange rate relationship, Spot exchange rate solution, Spot exchange rates, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

54
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 1992/022
Stock No:

WPIEA0221992
ISBN:

9781451921199
ISSN:

1018-5941

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