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Can a habit formation model really explain the forward premium anomaly?

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  • Costa, Carlos Eugênio da
  • Vasconcelos, Jivago B. Ximenes de

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Verdelhan (2009) shows that if one is to explain the foreign exchange forward premium behavior using Campbell and Cochrane (1999)’s habit formation model one must specify it in such a way to generate pro-cyclical short term risk free rates. At the calibration procedure, we show that this is only possible in Campbell and Cochrane’s framework under implausible parameters specifications given that the price-consumption ratio diverges in almost all parameters sets. We, then, adopt Verdelhan’s shortcut of fixing the sensivity function λ(st) at its steady state level to attain a finite value for the price-consumption ratio and release it in the simulation stage to ensure pro-cyclical risk free rates. Beyond the potential inconsistencies that such procedure may generate, as suggested by Wachter (2006), with procyclical risk free rates the model generates a downward sloped real yield curve, which is at odds with the data.

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  • Costa, Carlos Eugênio da & Vasconcelos, Jivago B. Ximenes de, 2009. "Can a habit formation model really explain the forward premium anomaly?," FGV EPGE Economics Working Papers (Ensaios Economicos da EPGE) 692, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil).
    • Handle: RePEc:fgv:epgewp:692
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