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The foreign exchange risk premium in an exchange rate target zone regime with devaluation/realignment risks is derived … devaluation/realignment risk, is taken into account. The risk premium is then the sum of two separate risk premia, arising from … real and nominal exchange rate premia are considered. The real and nominal risk premia from movements within the band are …
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An open economy portfolio balance model, describing allocation among money, a domestic bond, and a traded foreign currency bond is developed for a world of many countries. A special role is attributed to the dollar, namely that all internationally traded bonds are denominated in that currency....
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exchange rates -- determine the risk characteristics of nominal assets, and how these risk characteristics determine …
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because the former allows risk sharing across countries while the latter does not. The analysis is performed in a two … demonstrated that the ability to share risk across countries in the fixed rate regime does not necessarily lead to higher welfare … than the inability to share risk in the flexible rate regime …
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a sticky-price alternative to Lucas's (1982) exchage rate risk premium model. We show that the level risk premium' in …
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average risk tolerance across investors. The same constant applies to every real foreign investment held by every investor … market risk premia, an average of world market volatilities, and an average of exchange rate volatilities, where we take the … exchange risk approaches zero, the constant will be equal to one minus the ratio of the variance of the world market return to …
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well documented facts, the failure of log-linear empirical exchange rate models of the 1970's and the variability of risk …, can have a significant effect on risk premiums in the foreign exchange market and can induce conditional volatility of …
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A basic prediction of effcient risk-sharing is that relative consumption growth rates across countries or regions …, employing a newly constructed multi-country and multi-regional data set. Within countries, we find signifcant evidence for risk …. We identify this failure of risk sharing as a border effect. We find that the border effect is substantially (but not …
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general-equilibrium theory of exchange rate determination based on the interaction between monetary policy and time … volatility shocks is consistent with the empirical evidence. Furthermore we show that risk factors and interest-rate smoothing …
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The objective of this paper is to show that the proposal by Froot and Thaler (1990) of delayed portfolio adjustment can account for a broad set of puzzles about the relationship between interest rates and exchange rates. The puzzles include: i) the delayed overshooting puzzle; ii) the forward...
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