Macroeconomic surprises, market environment, and safe-haven currencies

Abstract We study the reaction of the CHF and JPY to macroeconomic surprises and changes in the broader market environment before and during the crisis using high-frequency data. Results show that the CHF and JPY are traditionally more sensitive to macroeconomic surprises than other currencies, refl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Adrian Jäggi, Martin Schlegel, Attilio Zanetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-05-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-019-0031-9