This paper develops a liquidity measure tailored to the foreign exchange (FX) market, quanties the amount of commonality in liquidity across dierent exchange rates, and determines theextent of liquidity risk premiums embedded in FX returns. The new liquidity measure utilizesultra high frequency...

This paper suggests a factor model for carry trade strategies wherethe regression coeffcients are allowed to depend on market volatility and liquid-ity. Empirical results on daily data from 1995 to 2008 show that a typical carrytrade strategy has much higher exposure to the stock market and also...