Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes

Exchange rate is very important topic to look at because it affects many people from government to private investor to people at large. They interested in exchange rate because it affects investment strategy, government policy,spending, etc. This dissertation looks at the relationship between exchan...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Theodorus, Jose Felix
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26205/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26205/1/TheodorusJoseFelix.pdf
id nottingham-26205
recordtype eprints
spelling nottingham-262052017-10-19T13:22:30Z http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26205/ Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes Theodorus, Jose Felix Exchange rate is very important topic to look at because it affects many people from government to private investor to people at large. They interested in exchange rate because it affects investment strategy, government policy,spending, etc. This dissertation looks at the relationship between exchange rate and both political factors and economic indicator especially interest and inflation rate. This dissertation used Riley and Luksetich (1990) method to find exchange rate reaction during changes in presidency. There are 3 main findings which this dissertation found important to understand the relationship between exchane rate and both political factors and economic indicators. One,foreign exchange rate market is efficient in semi strong form. Two, political news is very useful elements to be considered and used to forecast exchange rate movement in the short term. Three, inflation and interest rate are very poor indicators to predict exchange rate movement in the short run. 2010 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26205/1/TheodorusJoseFelix.pdf Theodorus, Jose Felix (2010) Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Local University
institution University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
building Nottingham Research Data Repository
collection Online Access
language English
description Exchange rate is very important topic to look at because it affects many people from government to private investor to people at large. They interested in exchange rate because it affects investment strategy, government policy,spending, etc. This dissertation looks at the relationship between exchange rate and both political factors and economic indicator especially interest and inflation rate. This dissertation used Riley and Luksetich (1990) method to find exchange rate reaction during changes in presidency. There are 3 main findings which this dissertation found important to understand the relationship between exchane rate and both political factors and economic indicators. One,foreign exchange rate market is efficient in semi strong form. Two, political news is very useful elements to be considered and used to forecast exchange rate movement in the short term. Three, inflation and interest rate are very poor indicators to predict exchange rate movement in the short run.
format Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
author Theodorus, Jose Felix
spellingShingle Theodorus, Jose Felix
Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes
author_facet Theodorus, Jose Felix
author_sort Theodorus, Jose Felix
title Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes
title_short Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes
title_full Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes
title_fullStr Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes
title_full_unstemmed Foreign Exchange Reaction on the Announcement of Political News: Evidence of Indonesia during Presidency Changes
title_sort foreign exchange reaction on the announcement of political news: evidence of indonesia during presidency changes
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26205/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/26205/1/TheodorusJoseFelix.pdf
first_indexed 2018-09-06T11:37:10Z
last_indexed 2018-09-06T11:37:10Z
_version_ 1610857925391155200