Working Paper
The high-frequency response of exchange rates and interest rates to macroeconomic announcements
Wright, Jonathan H.; Wang, Shing-Yi; Rogers, John H.; Faust, Jon (2003)
Many recent papers have studied movements in stock, bond, and currency prices over short windows of time around macro announcements. This paper adds to the announcement effects literature in two ways. First, we study the joint announcement effects across a broad range of assets--exchange rates and U.S. and foreign term structures. In order to evaluate whether the joint effects can be reconciled with conventional theory, we interpret the joint movements in light of uncovered interest rate parity or changes in risk premia. For several real macro announcements, we find that a stronger than ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 784

Working Paper
Revisiting the Border: an assessment of the law of one price using very disaggregated consumer price data
Rogers, John H.; Engel, Charles; Wang, Shing-Yi (2003)
We reexamine the evidence for border effects in deviations from the law of one price, using data for consumer prices from Canadian and U.S. cities. The study parallels Engel and Rogers (1996), except that this study uses actual price data rather than price index data. We find evidence of border effects both in the levels of prices and the percentage change in prices. Even accounting for distance between cities and relative population sizes, we find that the absolute difference between prices in the U.S. and Canada in our data (annual from 1990 to 2002) is greater than seven percent. This ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 777

Working Paper
IT investment and Hicks' composite-good theorem: the U.S. experience
Marquez, Jaime R.; Wang, Shing-Yi (2003)
We study whether aggregation residuals in U.S. private investment in information technology (IT) exhibit a predictable pattern that is consistent with Hicks' composite-good theorem and that may be used for forecasting. To determine whether one can extract such a pattern, we apply the general-to-specific strategy developed by Krolzig and Hendry (2001). This strategy combines ordinary least squares with a computer-automated algorithm that selects a specification based on coefficients' statistical significance, residual properties, and parameter constancy. Then, we derive the testable ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 767