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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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This paper investigates the relation between monetary conditions and the excess returns arising from an investment strategy that consists of borrowing low-interest rate currencies and investing in currencies with high interest rates, so-called "carry trade". The results indicate that carry trade...
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This paper investigates the relation between monetary conditions and the excess returns arising from currency carry … decrease in inter-national risk aversion, which in turn leads to a compression in currency risk premia and higher carry trade …
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economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … paper is to analyse the market impact on major currency pairs of official statements made by EME policy-makers about their …
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economies (EMEs) on configurations between the US dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed US … have a statistically but also an economically significant impact on the euro, and to a lesser extent the yen against the US … paper is to analyse the market impact on major currency pairs of official statements made by EME policy-makers about their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605019
While up to the late 1990s Japanese foreign exchange intervention was fully sterilized, Japanese monetary authorities left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous research on foreign exchange intervention, unsterilized...
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-the-counter (OTC) currency option prices to a set of return-based correlation measures and assess the relative quality of the … correlations. We then apply the correlation forecasts to two policyrelevant topics, to produce scenario analyses for the euro … effective exchange rate index, and to analyse the impact on cross-currency co-movement of interventions on the JPY/USD exchange …
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equity investors and speculative money market investors while investors in currency option markets react strongly to expected …
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identify the macroeconomic fundamentals associated with such different tail behaviour, and find that currency portfolios sorted …
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Using count-data techniques, this paper studies the determinants of currency choice in the issuance of foreign-currency …-denominated bonds. In particular, we investigate whether bond issuers choose their issuance currency in order to exploit the borrowing … public sector and private sector. Our findings show that the choice of issuance currency is sensitive to deviations from …
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