This paper presents new evidence that international investors are compensated for bearing currency risk. We present a new three-factor international capital asset pricing model, comprising a global equity factor denominated in local currencies, and two currency factors, dollar and carry. The...

While global stock markets enjoy high returns on days surrounding FOMC meetings, there is no comparable result for other central banks either internationally or, more surprisingly, domestically. Neither announcement surprises nor currency moves drive these findings, which hold even for stocks...

While global stock markets enjoy high returns on days surrounding FOMC meetings, there is no comparable result for other central banks either internationally or, more surprisingly, domestically. Neither announcement surprises nor currency moves drive these findings, which hold even for stocks...

The adoption of reputational sanctions in the P2P segment of the Chinese consumer finance market offers a unique opportunity to test the impact of reputational concerns on repayment behavior in a clean experimental setting. In a privately implemented randomized controlled trial of 18,000 late...

Recent empirical studies have established that deviations from the Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) condition may be different across macroeconomic regimes. We extend this work to account for possible nonlinearities and endogeneity by estimating a Threshold Vector Autoregression (TVAR) model....

The magnitude of risk compensation in equity markets is an enduring puzzle in the field of the Economics of Finance. Bansal and Yaron (2004) and Bansal, Kiku and Yaron (2007a,b) have recently addressed the topic by picking out the long run growth prospects and the level of economic uncertainty...