Seminar: Advanced Empirical Analysis of Exchange Rates (F)
Course content
The objective of the seminar is for students to work on independent research projects related to exchange rates. Students choose their topic in consultation with the seminar organizer, prepare and submit a first outline of the project, prepare and submit a first draft of the complete paper, present own paper and provide critical evaluation and feedback to other student’s paper, and hand-in a revised and final version of the seminar paper for assessment.
The following list provide possible topics but students are free to choose other topics as well
- Are exchange rate models useful for forecasting?
- Are fundamental based exchange rate models useful?
- Is it profitable to use carry trade strategies?
- Bid-ask spreads and uncertainty
- Exchange rates and monetary policy uncertainty
- Deviations from CIP
- FX liquidity, measurements and determinants
- Google Search Volume Index measures and exchange rates
- Danish central bank interventions
- Explaining the forward premium puzzle, the role of liquidity and deviations from PPP
- Are FX and stock returns related?
- Are there arbitrage opportunities on the FX market?
- The information content of order flows
- The sources of fluctuations in real and nominal exchange rates
The course is a part of the financial line, signified by (F)
The seminar is primarily for students at the MSc of Economics.
After completing the seminar the student is expected to be able to fulfill the learning outcome specified in the Master curriculum and to be able to:
Knowledge:
- Account for key theories and methods relevant for the chosen topic.
- Discuss and criticize the literature related to the topic.
- Account for problems and applications that motivate the topic.
- Critically reflect on different methods and approaches for
modeling exchange rates.
Skills:
- Understand a new topic and identify key questions within that topic.
- Choose and assess relevant journal articles within the topic.
- Critically evaluate theories and empirical methods used in the relevant literature.
- Present and discuss research ideas and results within the topic.
- Communicate implications that the results might have for policy making and exchange rate management.
Competences:
- Plan and carry out an independent research project focusing on exchange rates.
- Give constructive feedback on others’ research projects.
At the seminar the student is trained independently to
- identify and clarify a problem,
- seek and select relevant literatur,
- write a academic paper,
- present and discuss own paper with the other students at the
seminar.
Mandatory activities in the seminar:
- Kick-off meeting
- Finding literatur and defining the project
- Writing process of the seminar paper
- Presentation of own project and paper
- Giving constructive feedback to another student´s paper
- Actively participating in discussions at the presentations and
other meetings.
The aim of the presentations is, that you use the presentation as
an opportunity to practice oral skills and to receive feedback at
the paper. The presentations are not a part of the exam and will
not be assessed.
The seminar project paper must be uploaded in Absalon before the
presentations, as the opponents and the other seminar participants
have to read and comment on the paper. It is important that you
upload a paper that is so finalized as possible due to the fact
that the value of feedback and comments at the presentation is
strongly associated with the skill level of the seminar paper.
The teacher defines what materials may be used for the
presentations.
After the presentations, you can with a few corrections improve the
seminar paper by including the feedback and comments emerged during
the presentations. It is NOT intended that you rewrite or begin the
writing of the seminar paper after the presentation has taken
place.
Students are expected to find relevant literature for their chosen topic. The level of the curriculum is Lucio Sarno and Mark P. Taylor, (2002), The Economics of Exchange Rates, Cambridge University Press and Keith Pilbeam (2013), International Finance, Palgrave Macmillan. Another useful textbook is Martin D.D. Evans (2011), Exchange-Rate Dynamics, Princeton University Press. Articles published in journals such as Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance are useful when finding topics and background material.
It is recommended that the student has followed the MSc course
“Economics of
Exchange Rates” or has knowledge similar to the curriculum. It is
an advantage, if the student has followed any econometrics course
at the MSc level, for example “Advanced Macroeconomics: Structural
Vector Autoregressive Analysis” or “Financial
Econometrics” if the chosen topic is empirically oriented.
Relation to subjects and courses “Economics of Exchange Rates”;
“Advanced Macroeconomics: Structural Vector Autoregressive
Analysis”; “Financial Econometrics”; “Corporate Finance and
Incentives”; “Corporate Finance Theory”; “Applied
Finance”
BSc in Economics or similar
Schedule Fall 2023:
- Kick-off meeting: Week 36
- Deadline for submission of commitment paper / project
description: No later than 1 October.
1 october
- Deadline for uploading a seminar assignment paper in the Digital
Exam portal: No later than one week before the presentations.
- Presentations: In the time period 20 November - 11 December
- Exam date: 20 December at 10.00 AM - latest uploading of Seminar
paper to the Digital Exam portal for assessment.
- Deadline for assessment: 24 January
All information regarding the seminar is communicated through
Absalon including venue. So it is very important that you by
yourself logon to Absalon and read the information already when you
are registered at the seminar.
For enrolled students: More information about registration, schedule, rules etc. can be found at Master (UK) and Master (DK).
More information about seminars is available at Seminars (UK) and Seminars (DK).
Read about the study programme and curricula at MSc in Economics
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Written examination
- Type of assessment details
- A seminar paper in English that meets the formal requirements
for written papers stated in the curriculum of the Master programme
and at KUNet for seminars.
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Attendance in all activities at the seminar as stated in the formal requrements in the Master curriculum and at the KUnet for Seminars (UK) and Seminars (DK) is required to participate in the exam.
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- Aid
- All aids allowed
for the project paper.
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Use of AI tools is permitted. You must explain how you have used the tools. When text is solely or mainly generated by an AI tool, the tool used must be quoted as a source.
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- External censorship
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- Exam period
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General information:
The seminar paper must be uploaded to the Digital Exam portal. More information will be available from the middle of the semester.
Information about examination, rules, aids etc. is available at Master (UK) and Master (DK).
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- Re-exam
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Reexam information:
The reexam is a written seminar paper as stated in the Curriculum.
Deadline and more information is available at Seminars(UK) and Seminars(DK).
Information about reexam etc is available at Master(UK) and Master(DK).
Criteria for exam assessment
Students are assessed on the extent to which they master the learning outcome for the seminar and can make use of the knowledge, skills and competencies listed in the learning outcomes in the Curriculum of the Master programme.
To receive the top grade, the student must with no or only a few minor weaknesses be able to demonstrate an excellent performance displaying a high level of command of all aspects of the relevant material.
- Category
- Hours
- Project work
- 186
- Seminar
- 20
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- AØKK08384U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedulegroup
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and venue:
Go to "Remarks"
Exam and re-sits: Go to "Exam" - Capacity
- 1 class with maks. 20 students
- Studyboard
- Department of Economics, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Economics
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
Course Coordinator
- Michael Bergman (15-516d676c656970324669766b7165724469677372326f7932686f)
Teacher
Michael Bergmann (Michael.Bergman@econ.ku.dk)
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