Regime-switching behavior of the term structure of forward markets
By: Elena Tchernykh, William H. Branson.
Contributors: Branson, William H.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11517; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11517.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Futures.; Commodity exchanges.
Description: "This paper presents techniques for modelling and estimating the behavior of financial market price or return differentials that follow non-linear regime-switching behaviour.  The methodology to be used here is estimation of variants of threshold autoregression (TAR) models.  In the basic model the differentials are random within a band defined by transactions costs and contract risk; they occasionally jump outside the band, and then follow an autoregressive path back towards the band.  The principal reference is Tchernykh (1998).  The application here is to deviations from covered interest parity (CIP) between forward foreign exchange (FX) markets in Hong Kong and the Philippines.  We have observed that these deviations from the band follow irregular steps, rather than single jumps.  Therefore a Modified TAR model (MTAR) that allows for this behaviour is also estimated.  The estimation methodology is a regime-switching maximum likelihood procedure.  The estimates can provide indicators for policy-makers of the market's expectation of crisis, and could also provide indicators for the private sector of convergence of deviations to their usual bands.  The TAR model has the potential to be applied to differentials between linked pairs of financial market prices more generally"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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