Hanke, Michael
[Verfasser:in]
;
Poulsen, Rolf
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Weissensteiner, Alex
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
The CHF/EUR Exchange Rate during the Swiss National Bank’s Minimum Exchange Rate Policy
Anmerkungen:
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Beschreibung:
Between September 6, 2011, and January 15, 2015, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) enforced a lower bound of 1.20 on the CHF/EUR exchange rate. In this paper, we view the SNB's commitment to this lower bound as a put option and use a latent likelihood estimation approach to infer (a) where the exchange rate would have been without this policy (the latent exchange rate), (b) the volatility of the latent exchange rate, and (c) the market's view on the expected remaining lifetime of the SNB's policy. Our model shows that the removal of the policy was preceded by a sharp decline in the market's estimate of its expected remaining lifetime, although the market was unable to anticipate the exact timing of the removal. The model accurately predicts the CHF/EUR rate following the removal