We characterize the equilibrium exchange rate in a general equilibrium economy without imposing strong restrictions on the output processes, preferences, or commodity market imperfections. The nominal exchange rate is determined by differences in initial wealths the currencies of richer...

Generalizing Cooper-Kaplanis (), we estimate implied costs that reconcile international portfolios with InCAPM predictions. Costs depend on home- and host-country characteristics and on interactions; we estimate risk tolerance rather than pre-specifying it; and we control for currency risk,...

Does one make money trading on the deviations between observed bond prices and values proposed by bond-pricing models? We extend Sercu and Wu (1997)'s work to more models and more data, but we especially refine the methodology. In particular, we provide a normal-return benchmark that markedly...

In their regression tests of uncovered interest parity (UIP), Huisman et al. (1998) focus on days with unusually large cross-sectional variances in forward premia, their regressor, conjecturing that such an quot;extremequot; sample tends to pick episodes with more pronounced expectations about...

We propose a U-shaped relation between the relative weight of bank loans in total corporate debt and the firm's market-to-book ratio-a proxy for expected growth-which reconciles most existing theories. Using data on Japanese firms for 1983-97, we do find that, in the lower range of growth...

In implementing a variance-minimizing cross or delta hedge, the regression coefficient is often estimated using data from the past, but one could also use estimators that are suggested by the random-walk or unbiased-expectations models and require just a single price. We compare the performances...

We test how keiretsu membership affects the Fama and French (1999) required IRR on value (or cost of capital) and the IRR on cost (or return on investment), 1974-95, of all listed non-financials in Japan. Rather than computing point estimates from aggregate data, we employ non-linear...