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In the past decade, Germany has been the world champion in exporting capital ("Exportweltmeister"). No other country invested larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, we find that Germany plays in the third division when it comes to investment performance. To show this, we...
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This paper studies the impact of international capital flows on asset prices through risk premia. We investigate whether foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury securities significantly contributed to the decline in excess returns on long-term bonds between 1995 and 2008. We run forecasting...
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We investigate whether foreign purchases of long-term U.S. Treasury securities significantly affect their expected excess-returns. We run predictive regressions of realized excess returns on measures of net purchases of treasuries by both foreign official and private agents. We find that...
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Germany is world champion in exporting capital ("Exportweltmeister"). No other country invests larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, Germany plays in the third division when it comes to investment performance, as we show in this paper. We study the returns on German foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025673
In the past decade, Germany has been the world champion in exporting capital (“Exportweltmeister”). No other country invested larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, we find that Germany plays in the third division when it comes to investment performance. To show this, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276058
We study the effects of FX liquidity risk on carry trade returns using a low-frequency market-wide liquidity measure …. We show that a liquidity-based ranking of currency pairs can be used to construct a mimicking liquidity risk factor …, which helps in explaining the variation of carry trade returns across exchange rate regimes. In a liquidity-adjusted asset …
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world. We show that even in this market exposure to liquidity risk commands a non-trivial risk premium of up to 3.6% per … annum. In particular, systematic and currency-specific liquidity risk are not subsumed by existing risk factors and … successfully price the cross-section of currency returns. However, we also find that liquidity and carry trade premia are …
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financial crisis. If such liquidity risk exists and is undiversifiable, then loose monetary policy should be associated with a …
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