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Content Inside: Economic Policy Web Essay: Rogoff on the failure of exchange rate models The failure of empirical exchange rate models: no longer new but still true Kenneth Rogoff Economic Counsellor and Director of Research International Monetary Fund One of the most remarkable facts about G-3 exchange rates is that they are so seemingly immune to systematic empirical explanation. This does not mean that we as a profession have given up on exchange rates and indeed there has recently been a resurgence of interest in the topic. The interest was marked by a recent conference whose central theme was to see what the profession has learned since the 1983 publication of a rather nihilistic paper entitled Empirical Exchange Rate Models of the 1970s: Do They Fit Out of Sample? in which Richard Meese and I showed that random-walk forecasts outperform economic models of exchange rates. To make a long story short not only have a subsequent twenty years of data and research failed to overturn the Meese-Rogoff result they have cemented it as readers can confirm from Jeff Frankel and Andy Roses definitive survey in the 1995 Handbook of International Economics the May 2000 edition of the IMFs World Economic Outlook or the papers posted on the September conferences web site (Empirical Exchange Rate Modelling). The only consistent qualification (which Meese and I noted in our second paper) is that the models seem to outperform the random walk at very long time horizons of three to four years (a fact demonstrated most convincingly in Nelson Marks 1995 paper in the American Economic Review). However the notion that short run exchange rates are hard or impossible to predict was not always accepted. Exchange rate modelling in the early 1970s Toward the outset of the 1980s Richard Meese and I were working as staff economists at the International Finance Division of the US Federal Reserve Board in Economic Policy Web Essay Economic Policy Web Essay: Rogoff on the failure of exchange rate mode ...
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