The Role of Expectations in Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Abstract

Exchange rate is one of the most important factors in open economies. So determining the factors which affect exchange rate behaviors is necessary. In this research we try to analyze the role of extrapolative expectations and chartists in the instability of exchange rate market. We use unofficial nominal exchange rate data (Rial/Dollar) in weekly, monthly and quarterly horizons (from 1991 to 2015). We use fundamentalists- chartists approach and agent-based model (ABM) for simulation. The results show that when there is instability in market, the weight of chartists is much more than fundamentalists and vice versa. Also we show that chartists gain from this market so they don’t like to leave the market.

Keywords

• exchange rate
• fundamentalist- chartist approach
• extrapolative expectations