Can oil prices forecast exchange rates? An empirical analysis of the relationship between commodity prices and exchange rates

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of International Money and Finance
Year: 2015
Volume: 54
Issue: C
Pages: 116-141

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Abstract

We show the existence of a very short-term relationship at the daily frequency between changes in the price of a country's major commodity export and changes in its nominal exchange rate. The relationship appears to be robust and to hold when we use contemporaneous (realized) commodity price changes in our regression. However, when we use lagged commodity price changes, the predictive ability is ephemeral, mostly appearing after instabilities have been appropriately taken into account.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jimfin:v:54:y:2015:i:c:p:116-141
Journal Field
International
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25