Short-term foreign exchange forecasting: decision making based on expert polls
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Author(s)Jaehyung AnLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5410-7506
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Mikhail DorofeevLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2829-9900
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.16(4).2019.19
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Article InfoVolume 16 2019, Issue #4, pp. 215-228
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The paper aims to analyze the decision making based on expert polls for short-term foreign exchange (FX) forecasting from the viewpoint of the economic behavior theory. The paper offers the assessment of the problem of decision making for forecasting and investment into foreign currency. This study analyzes the relative accuracy of expert polls and forecasts, based on historical data, in the prediction of the most liquid currency pairs (EUR/USD, USD/JPY, GBP/USD) as well as USD/RUB currency pair on time horizons 1, 2, 6, and 12 months. Observation period lasted from January 2018 to January 2019. For EUR/USD (56-62 experts), the polls were more accurate than historical simulations. For GBP/USD (28-70 experts), historical simulations were more accurate than polls. For USD/JPY and USD/RUB, historical simulations are better earlier, while polls are slightly better later. The main conclusion is that EUR/USD historical modeling is usually less accurate on the horizon more than half a year as compared with expert polls for making the decisions about the future exchange rate.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)G11, D81, D84
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- Figure 1. Mean absolute error of expert polls and forecasts EFA against the real rate EUR/USD (1, 3, 6 months and 1 year)
- Figure 2. Mean absolute error of expert polls and forecasts EFA against the real rate USD/JPY (1, 3, 6 months and 1 year)
- Figure 3. Mean absolute error of expert polls and forecasts EFA against the real rate GBP/USD (1, 3, 6 months and 1 year)
- Figure 4. Mean absolute error of expert polls and forecasts EFA against the real rate RUB/USD (1, 3, 6 months and 1 year)
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