a column by Paolo Manasse, Graziano Moramarco and Giulio Trigilia for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal
The pound depreciated overnight by about 7% against the euro and other main currencies following the Leave victory in the UK’s EU referendum, suggesting that the markets expected Brexit to harm the British economy.
Yet currency markets hailed the overwhelming victory of Brexiter Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party in the 2019 general election with a 2% appreciation of the pound.
This column argues that this apparent contradiction can be explained by disentangling the effects that politics has on exchange rate expectations and a political risk premium.
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Brexit, uncertainty, exchange_rates, political_risk_premium,
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