In this paper, I examine the heterogeneous exposure of USD-denomination bonds (dollar bonds) to exchange rate risks. An appreciation of the US dollar increases the credit spread differential, referred to as the Foreign Discount, between dollar bonds issued by non-US and US firms. I provide both...

We construct a sovereign default network by employing high-dimensional vector autoregressions obtained by analyzing connectedness in sovereign credit default swap markets. We develop four measures of centrality, namely, degree, betweenness, closeness, and eigenvector centralities, to detect...

Forward exchange rates convey information about the risk premiums of the currency exposures of the investors. The extraction of these risk premiums provides market information for the expected future values of a currency, which may be useful for policymakers in their market surveillance and...