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Table 4 Crisis vs. pre-crisis for the JPY

From: Macroeconomic surprises, market environment, and safe-haven currencies

Pre-crisis sample: 1/01/2000 to 7/31/2007; crisis sample: 8/01/2007 to 12/31/2013

 

Pre-crisis

Crisis

Pre-crisis

Crisis

 

Obs: 991

Obs: 1248

Obs: 991

Obs: 1248

Dependent variable: \(\Delta fx^{c}_{t+1}\)

c= EURJPY

c= EURJPY

c= USDJPY

c = USDJPY

 

β k

p value

β k

p value

β k

p value

β k

p value

C

0.001

0.835

0.006

0.142

0.000

0.881

0.008

0.030

\(\Delta f{x^{c}_{t}}\)

− 0.315

0.000

− 0.203

0.016

− 0.162

0.072

− 0.349

0.000

Japanese variables

        

Machinery orders

−.054

0.000

− 0.018

0.003

− 0.063

0.000

− 0.018

0.000

Retail sales

− 0.023

0.049

− 0.003

0.558

− 0.029

0.028

− 0.002

0.689

Household expenditures

− 0.008

0.208

− 0.010

0.042

− 0.013

0.151

− 0.007

0.119

Real GDP final

− 0.074

0.040

0.026

0.000

− 0.073

0.000

0.024

0.000

Euro area variables

        

Business climate

0.010

0.133

0.032

0.008

0.006

0.310

0.012

0.042

German variables

        

Retail sales

0.030

0.147

0.032

0.003

0.008

0.164

0.015

0.026

US variables

        

Avg hourly earnings pro

0.017

0.461

0.097

0.242

0.063

0.060

0.082

0.358

Emp.st. busin. cond. index

− 0.019

0.009

0.040

0.008

0.031

0.012

0.055

0.001

Consumer confidence

− 0.035

0.000

0.093

0.000

0.053

0.001

0.075

0.000

Phifed curr. busin. cond.

− 0.032

0.014

0.071

0.000

0.024

0.011

0.082

0.000

Employment non-farm

− 0.077

0.006

0.271

0.000

0.199

0.000

0.366

0.000

Existing home sales

0.003

0.651

0.044

0.063

0.029

0.020

0.047

0.001

Housing starts

0.002

0.732

0.048

0.002

0.010

0.239

0.060

0.049

Import goods and serv.

0.035

0.008

0.020

0.411

− 0.082

0.000

0.000

0.995

Industrial production

− 0.006

0.481

0.024

0.002

0.030

0.003

0.026

0.000

ISM non-manuf.

  

0.044

0.009

  

0.073

0.000

ISM manuf.

− 0.013

0.266

0.130

0.000

0.052

0.000

0.147

0.000

Comp.index leading ind.

− 0.003

0.569

0.034

0.012

0.006

0.286

0.039

0.000

New orders dur. goods

− 0.015

0.013

0.042

0.004

0.049

0.000

0.053

0.004

Productivity

0.032

0.269

0.025

0.143

0.009

0.556

0.033

0.000

Retail sales

− 0.019

0.029

0.105

0.000

0.061

0.000

0.107

0.000

Real GDP final

− 0.015

0.224

0.046

0.001

0.021

0.291

0.061

0.001

Real GDP pre

0.002

0.847

0.042

0.050

0.022

0.201

0.084

0.000

Unit labor costs

− 0.015

0.659

0.045

0.033

0.008

0.770

0.028

0.000

Unemployment rate

0.007

0.806

0.090

0.010

0.109

0.003

0.117

0.000

R 2

0.155

 

0.286

 

0.350

 

0.395

 

Adjusted R 2

0.131

 

0.269

 

0.332

 

0.381

 

Prob(F-stat)

0.000

 

0.000

 

0.000

 

0.000