Can a habit formation model really explain the Forward Premium Anomaly?

Verdelhan (2009) shows that if one is to explain the foreign ex- change 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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vasconcelos, Jivago B. Ximenes de (author)
Format: masterThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10438/2714
Country:Brazil
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.fgv.br:10438/2714