Forward rate bias

Forward rate bias is the tendency of currency markets to over-estimate changes in exchange rates: the actual movements tend to be smaller than the expectations as measured by forward rates

This violates the interest rate parity relationship that can be deduced by assuming that there is no opportunity for uncovered interest arbitrage.

There is evidence that forward rate bias does occur.

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