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We provide the first systematic asset pricing analysis of one of the main safe asset categories, the repurchase agreement (repo). A standard, no-arbitrage model with a market and a carry factor prices these near-money assets. While the market factor determines the short-term interest rate level,...
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In this paper, I study individual currency pairs and examine the behavior of the cross section of their carry returns with the USD. Developed and emerging market carry trades yield high Sharpe ratios even after adjusting for transaction costs. I show that carry trade risks carry trade risks are...
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Past trends in fundamentals linked to economic activity and inflation predict currency returns. We find that a trading strategy that goes long currencies with strong economic momentum and short currencies with weak economic momentum exhibits an annualized Sharpe ratio of 0.70 and yields a...
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In this paper we derive the measure of position-unwinding risk of currency carry trade portfolios from the currency … currency volatility, and highly correlated with global currency skewness risk. We show that high interest-rate currencies are … exposed to higher position-unwinding risk than low interest-rate currencies. We then provide a framework that decomposes carry …
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excess returns compensate U.S. investors for taking on aggregate risk by shorting the dollar in bad times, when the price of … risk is high. The counter-cyclical variation in risk premia leads to strong return predictability: the average forward …
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