This thesis consists of four chapters that examine different policy relevant economic processes related to exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices. In the first chapter we empirically analyze the relationship between carry trade positions and some key financial as well as...

We investigate how currency denomination a ects the price of credit risky securities of the same issuer. We focus on eurozone sovereign quanto spreads, i.e., di erences in credit default swap (CDS) premiums denominated in U.S. dollar and Euro of the same reference entity. Quanto spreads of...

Variance risk premium is arguably one of the most important and robust risk premia documented in the academic finance. The first chapter of this thesis deals with variance risk on the FX market: therein, I recover risk-neutralized covariance matrices of currency returns and combine them with ex...