In the intertemporal asset pricing model, investments in spot foreign currencies involve time-varying risk proportional to the conditional covariance of the value of the position with the intertemporal marginal rate of substitution of domestic currency. We detect such risk premia in deviations...

The phrase 'equity premium puzzle' refers to the apparent inability of the standard asset-pricing paradigm to explain the average size of the equity premium in US data. In order to describe this failure it is useful to outline the essential features of the basic intertemporal equilibrium model...

The conditional capital asset pricing model is applied to foreign currency futures prices, covariance risk being measured relative to excess returns from a broadly diversified portfolio of equities. Positive time-varing risk premia are found in all five currencies tested when the difference...