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Tests of Rational Expectations and No Risk Premium in Forward Exchange Markats

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David A. Hsieh
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This paper tests the hypothesis that traders have rational expeatations and charge no risk premium in the forward exchange market. It uses a statistical procedure which is consistent under a large class of heteroscedasticity, and a set of data which takes into account the institutional features of the forward exchange market. The results show that inferences using this procedure are very different from those using the standard assumption of homoscedasticity.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 0843.

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  1. Thomas Chiang & Thomas Hindelang, 1988. "Forward rate, spot rate and risk premium: An empirical analysis," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 124(1), pages 74-88, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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