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100 1 _aChen, Yu-Chin.
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245 1 0 _aCan Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices? /
_cYu-Chin Chen, Kenneth Rogoff, Barbara Rossi.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2008.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w13901
500 _aMarch 2008.
520 3 _aWe show that "commodity currency" exchange rates have remarkably robust power in predicting global commodity prices, both in-sample and out-of-sample, and against a variety of alternative benchmarks. This result is of particular interest to policymakers, given the lack of deep forward markets in many individual commodities, and broad aggregate commodity indices in particular. We also explore the reverse relationship (commodity prices forecasting exchange rates) but find it to be notably less robust. We offer a theoretical resolution, based on the fact that exchange rates are strongly forward looking, whereas commodity price fluctuations are typically more sensitive to short-term demand imbalances.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aC52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aC53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods • Simulation Methods
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aF31 - Foreign Exchange
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aF47 - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aRogoff, Kenneth.
700 1 _aRossi, Barbara.
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710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w13901.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w13901
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13901
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