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Efficiency in the Forward Foreign Exchange Market: Weekly Tests of the Australian/US Dollar Exchange Rate January 1984‐March 1987

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  • COLM KEARNEY
  • RONALD MACDONALD

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This paper examines the relationship which exists between the spot and forward Australian/US Dollar exchange rates for one‐, three‐and six‐month contracts using weekly data over the period January 1984—March 1987. The paper splits the forward premium into a component due to risk and one which is due to a forecasting error, and this analysis is suggestive of a time‐varying risk premium.

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  • Colm Kearney & Ronald Macdonald, 1991. "Efficiency in the Forward Foreign Exchange Market: Weekly Tests of the Australian/US Dollar Exchange Rate January 1984‐March 1987," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 67(3), pages 237-242, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:67:y:1991:i:3:p:237-242
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1991.tb02550.x
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