Foreign Exchange Risk Premium : Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Evidence From Italian Data /

This paper challenges the conventional view that foreign exchange risk premiums are small, not volatile, and unrelated to macroeconomic variables. For the Italian lira (1987-94), unconditional risk premiums-constructed using survey data to measure exchange rate expectations-are found to be sizable (...

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Huvudupphovsman: Giorgianni, Lorenzo
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1997/039
Länkar:Full text available on IMF
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