We quantify crash risk in currency returns. To accomplish this task, we develop and estimate an empirical model of exchange rate dynamics using daily data for four currencies relative to the US dollar: the Australian dollar, the British pound, the Swiss franc, and the Japanese yen. The model...

This paper documents that carry traders are subject to crash risk: i.e. exchange rate movements between high-interest-rate and low-interest-rate currencies are negatively skewed. We argue that this negative skewness is due to sudden unwinding of carry trades, which tend to occur in periods in...

This paper documents that carry traders are subject to crash risk: i.e. exchange rate movements between high-interest-rate and low-interest-rate currencies are negatively skewed. We argue that this negative skewness is due to sudden unwinding of carry trades, which tend to occur in periods in...

Im vorliegenden Papier wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Anpassungsprozesse sich in einem Zielzonensystem – wie etwa dem WKM II – ergeben, wenn der reale Wechselkurs der Inlandswährung unter Aufwertungsdruck gerät. Die modelltheoretische Grundlage bildet das Krugman’sche Grundmodell...