Do exchange rates respond to day-to-day changes in monetary policy expectations when no monetary policy changes occur?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1641-1657

  Fatum, Rasmus ^a   Scholnick, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exchange rates; Expectations; Federal funds futures; Monetary policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748578630     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0082     Document Type: Article

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