Chartists, Fundamentalists, and Dispersion in the Foreign Exchange Market

34 Pages Posted: 16 Mar 2009

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Ron Jongen

Dutch Central Bank (DNB)

Christian C. P. Wolff

University of Luxembourg; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Remco C. J. Zwinkels

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute

Willem F. C. Verschoor

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics; Tinbergen Institute

Date Written: March 13, 2009

Abstract

This paper examines the dispersion of beliefs of market participants in the foreign exchange market and their relative role in forming exchange rate expectations. We find distinct variations in the level of dispersion and document that dispersion arises because of a combined effect of market participants holding private information and participants attaching different weights to fundamental, technical, and carry trade analyses. We also document evidence that chartist rules are predominantly used in the shorter spectrum of the forecast horizon and fundamentalist rules are predominantly used in the longer spectrum, and that the importance attached to these rules is adapted through time.

Keywords: Chartists, exchange rate expectations, fundamentalists, heterogeneity, dispersion of beliefs, bounded rationality, survey data

JEL Classification: F3, G12

Suggested Citation

Jongen, Ron and Wolff, Christian C. P. and Zwinkels, Remco C.J. and Verschoor, Willem F. C., Chartists, Fundamentalists, and Dispersion in the Foreign Exchange Market (March 13, 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1359220 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1359220

Ron Jongen

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Christian C. P. Wolff

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics ( email )

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Tinbergen Institute ( email )

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