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Title: Forward Foreign Exchange Rates, Expected Spot Rates, and Premia: A Signal-Extraction Approach

Author(s): Christian C Wolff

Publication Date: May 1987

Keyword(s): Exchange Rates, Financial Markets, Kalman Filter, Persistence, Premia, Signal Extraction and Time Series

Programme Area(s): Applied Macroeconomics

Abstract: In this paper, we implement a methodology to identify and measure premia in the pricing of forward foreign exchange. The methodology involves application of signal-extraction techniques from the engineering literature. Diagnostic tests indicate that these methods are quite successful in capturing the essence of the time-series properties of premium terms. The estimated premium models indicate that premia show a certain degree of persistence over time and that more than half the variance in the forecast error that results from the use of current forward rates as predictors of future spot rates is accounted for by variation in premium terms. The methodology can be applied straightforwardly to the measurement of unobservables in other financial markets.

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Wolff, C. 1987. 'Forward Foreign Exchange Rates, Expected Spot Rates, and Premia: A Signal-Extraction Approach'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=189