Can oil prices forecast exchange rates?

Domenico Ferraro, Kenneth Rogoff and Barbara Rossi

No 11-34, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S. dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, the authors find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly frequencies. In contrast, the main contribution is to show the existence of a very short-term relationship at the daily frequency, which is rather robust and holds no matter whether the authors use contemporaneous (realized) or lagged oil prices in their regression. However, in the latter case the predictive ability is ephemeral, mostly appearing after instabilities have been appropriately taken into account.

Keywords: Foreign exchange rates; Economic forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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