We construct a multi-country affine term structure model that contains unspanned macroeconomic and foreign exchange risks. The canonical version of the model is derived and is shown to be easy to estimate. We show that it is important to impose restrictions (including global asset pricing, carry...

Purportedly consistent with "risk parity" (RP) asset allocation, recent studies document compelling "low risk" trading strategies that exploit a persistently negative relation between Sharpe ratios (SRs) and maturity along the U.S. Treasury (UST) term structure. This paper extends this evidence...

Forward foreign exchange contracts embed not only expected depreciation but also a sizable premium, which complicates inferences about anticipated returns. This study derives arbitrage-free affine forward currency models (AFCMs) with closed-form expressions for both unobservable variables. Model...

A small but ambitious literature uses affine arbitrage-free models to estimate jointly U.S. Treasury term premiums and the term structure of equity risk premiums. Within this approach, this paper identifies the parameter restrictions that are consistent with a simple dividend discount model,...

We develop a two-country international asset pricing model in which investors are heterogeneous. Exchange rate dynamics give rise to a currency risk premium, uncovered interest parity is violated. Countries whose output growth is expected to be sufficient to satisfy growth in demand have high...

We develop a two-country asset pricing model to explain countries' heterogeneous exposure to global risks and how these affect currency risk premia. In the model we consider separately the valuation of countries' consumption baskets from their sharing of risk. A currency's risk depends not only...

We examine whether the predictability and business-cycle dependence of excess returns in US Treasuries can be more naturally explained in terms of state-dependent risk premia or a specific cognitive bias (representativeness). We show that the extremely parsimonious cognitive-bias model in...

During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...

In what follows we quote the Hull-White 1 factor and Ho-Lee model dynamics and their corresponding Eurodollar convexity adjustment formulas. We then show that, in the special case where the Hull-White mean reversion parameter is zero, the adjustment under the Hull-White and Ho-Lee models is...

Forward foreign exchange contracts embed not only expected depreciation but also a sizable premium, which complicates inferences about anticipated returns. This study derives arbitrage-free affine forward currency models (AFCMs) with closed-form expressions for both unobservable variables. Model...