Options-based analysis of emerging market exchange rate expectations: Brazil's real plan, 1994-1999, An

Jose Campa, Kevin Chang and James F. Refalo
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Kevin Chang: Credit Suisse First Boston, London
James F. Refalo: New York University

No D/425, IESE Research Papers from IESE Business School

Abstract: This paper uses currency option data from the BMF, the Commodities and Futures exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to investigate market expectations on the Brazilian Real-U.S. dollar exchange rate from October 1994 through March 1999. Using options data, we derive implied probability density functions (PDF) for expected future exchange rates and thus measures of the credibility of the "crawling peg" and target zone ("maxiband") regimes governing the exchange rate. Since we do not impose an exchange rate model, our analysis is based on either the risk-neutral PDF or arbitrage-based tests of target zones. The paper, one of the first to use options data from an emerging market, finds that target zone credibility was poor prior to February 1996, improved afterwards through September 1997 and later started to worsen again. The market anticipated periodic band adjustments, and estimated distributions are very sensitive to political and economic news affecting the credibility of the regime. We also test whether devaluation intensities estimated from these option prices can be explained by standard macroeconomic factors.

Keywords: Exchange rate credibility; implied distributions; options (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 G13 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2000-10-20
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Journal Article: An options-based analysis of emerging market exchange rate expectations: Brazil's Real Plan, 1994-1999 (2002)
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Working Paper: An Options-Based Analysis of Emerging Market Exchange Rate Expectations: Brazil?s Real Plan, 1994-1999 (2000)
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