DM: DM Dollar Exchange Rate
Description
weekly observations from 1975 to 1989 number of observations : 778
observation : country
country : Germany
Format
A dataframe containing :
- date
- the date of the observation (19850104 is January, 4, 1985)
- s
- the ask price of the dollar in units of DM in the spot market on friday of the current week
- f
- the ask price of the dollar in units of DM in the 30-day forward market on friday of the current week
- s30
- the bid price of the dollar in units of DM in the spot market on the delivery date on a current forward contract
Source
Bekaert, G. and R. Hodrick (1993) On biases in the measurement of foreign exchange risk premiums, Journal of International Money and Finance, 12, 115-138.