Groth, Charlotta; Zampolli, Fabrizio - 2010
We construct a measure of the short-term world interest rate using principal component analysis. Drawing on real … interest rate data for 18 OECD countries for the period 1985 - 2008, persistent deviations from the world interest rate that … unexplained deviations capture foreign exchange rate risk premia. Using panel data techniques, we test the theoretical prediction …