We examine intra-market return comovement within each of 33 economies' stock exchanges from 1995 through 2013 using a model-free comovement gauge. We find that the stability of international macroeconomic trilemma policies, the number of crises, and the extent of turnover overshadow the...

Many existing studies have found a correlation between inflation and price dispersion in goods markets. In this paper, we document that a similar correlation can be found in equity markets. We estimate the correlation between overall price changes and dispersion in the NYSE and in the NASDAQ....

This paper shows that many Asia-Pacific firms are significantly exposed to foreign exchange risk. Their exposure appears to be much more widespread than is typical for the large, western industrialized economies. The paper also shows that exchange rate pegs appear to do little to alleviate this...

We examine the link between inflation and the variability of relative prices in U.S. equity markets and in U.S. goods and services markets. We find strong, comparable links in both sets of markets. This finding represents a puzzle since conventional wisdom ? derived from menu cost or imperfect...

This paper shows that many Asia-Pacific firms are significantly exposed to foreign exchange risk. Their exposure appears to be much more widespread than is typical for the large, western industrialized economies. The paper also shows that exchange rate pegs appear to do little to alleviate this...

In this study, we examine climate change salience risk in international equity markets. We find that (1) exposure to a single, broad measure of climate change salience risk is pervasive; notably it arises regardless of firms’ greenhouse gas emissions, (2) the exposure is priced: a return...

In this paper, we examine whether a monetary authority targets the exchange rate, per se, or instead simply appears to do so as it responds to the exchange rate and other variables in service to inflation and output targets. We combine data-rich estimation with a system of forward-looking...