Presenter: Paul Fontanier Affiliation: Yale University, School of Management. Paper: Sovereign Bond Purchases and Rollover Crises. Date: May 7, 2024. Time: 12:00 GMT (15:00 Israel Time) Abstract: This paper proposes a theory of large-scale government bond purchases by central banks in an environment with endogenous information acquisition. Information acquisition by private investors lowers risk premia … Read more
Presenter: Tatevik Sekhposyan Affiliation: Texas A&M University, Department of Economics Paper: Understanding the Sources of Macroeconomic Uncertainty Date: January 10, 2023 Time: 13:00 GMT (15:00 Israel Time) Abstract: We propose to decompose uncertainty into several components, such as uncertainty about the probability distribution generating the data (broadly speaking, model-misspecification) and uncertainty about the odds of … Read more
This paper presents new stylized facts about exchange rates and their relationship with macroeconomic fundamentals. We show that macroeconomic surprises explain, on average, about 70 percent of variation in nominal exchange rate changes at quarterly frequency. Using a novel present value decomposition of exchange rate changes that is disciplined with survey forecast data, we further show that macroeconomic surprises are also a very important driver of the currency risk premia component and explain about 50 percent of its variation. These surprises have even greater explanatory power during periods of economic downturns and financial uncertainty.