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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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that the fraction of unpriced risk in these assets is at least 85%. Extant explanations of carry strategies based on …
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-varying risk premium, but theory has been largely unsuccessful in producing a risk premium with the requisite properties. We … characterize the risk premium in a general arbitrage-free setting and describe the features a theory must have to account for the …
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interest parity for cointegration of various quantities are discussed. The modeling and testing for risk premiums is surveyed … risk premiums. General equilibrium models of the risk premium are examined and their empirical implications explored. The …
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The hypothesis that the forward rate is an unbiased predictor of the future spot rate has been consistently rejected in recent empirical studies. This paper examines several sources of measurement error and misspecification that might induce biases in such studies. Although previous inferences...
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primarily in response to changes in expectations of depreciation, or in the risk premium. We find that changes in expected … five major currencies, that variation in the risk premium constitutes a large part of variation in the forward discount as …
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The purpose of this paper is to characterize the changes in risk premium in the 1980s. A five-variable vector … autoregressive model (VAR) is constructed to calculate a risk premium series in the foreign exchange market. The risk premium series … is volatile and time-varying. The hypothesis of no risk premium is strongly rejected for the entire sample and each of …
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risk premium and expected real depreciation. We find a high degree of capital mobility across political boundaries for most …
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Fama(1984) analyzed the variability and the covariation of risk premiums and expected rates of depreciation. We employ … model of the risk premium. Increases in expected rates of depreciation of the dollar relative to five foreign currencies are … positively correlated with increases in the expected profitability of purchasing these currencies in the forward market, and risk …
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This paper tests the hypothesis that traders have rational expeatations and charge no risk premium in the forward …
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