Forecasting Exchange Rate between Thai Baht and the US Dollar Using Time Series Analysis

The objective of this research is to forecast the monthly exchange rate between Thai baht and the US dollar and to compare two forecasting methods. The methods are Box-Jenkins’ method and Holt’s method. Results show that the Box-Jenkins’ method is the most suitable method for the monthly Exchange Rate between Thai Baht and the US Dollar. The suitable forecasting model is ARIMA (1,1,0)  without constant and the forecasting equation is Y_t = Y_t-1 + 0.3691 (Y_t-1 - Y_t-2) When Y_t  is the time series data at time t, respectively.

Authors:

• Kunya Bowornchockchai

Keywords:

• Box–Jenkins Method
• Holt’s Method
• Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE).

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