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Getting beyond carry trade : what makes a safe haven currency?

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Stracca, Livio - 2011

There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...

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Optimal reserve composition in the presence of sudden stops : the euro and the dollar as safe haven currencies

Beck, Roland (contributor); Rahbari, Ebrahim (contributor) - 2008

traditional portfolio objectives as debt to reserve ratios decrease. We empirically estimate optimal dollar and euro shares for 24 … reserve ratios, introducing transactions demand has a relatively modest effect. We also find that euro and dollar bonds act as … in Asia and Latin America, while the euro is a better hedge for sudden stops in Emerging Europe. We reproduce …

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The impact of banking and sovereign debt crisis risk in the eurozone on the euro/US dollar exchange rate

Eichler, Stefan - In: Applied financial economics 22 (2012) 13/15, pp. 1215-1232

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Backtesting the tail risk of VaR in holding US dollar

Wong, Woon K. - In: Applied financial economics 19 (2009) 4/6, pp. 327-337

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Testing CAPM with a large number of assets

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2012

This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965), when the number of securities, N, is large relative to the time dimension, T, of the return series. In the case of cross-sectionally correlated...