Published in:CESifo Working Paper Series ; No. 5816
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (21 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2766253
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 17, 2016 erstellt
Description:
This paper uses a VAR-GARCH(1,1) model to analyse mean and volatility spillovers between macro news (in the form of newspaper headlines) and the exchange rates vis-a-vis both the US dollar and the euro of the currencies of a group of emerging countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey over the period 02/1/2003-23/9/2014. The results suggest limited dynamic linkages between the first moments compared to the second moments, causality-in-variance being found in a number of cases. The conditional correlations also provide evidence of co-movement. Finally, the recent global financial crisis appears to have had a significant impact