Foreign safe asset demand and the dollar exchange rate

Z Jiang, A Krishnamurthy, H Lustig - The Journal of Finance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a theory that links the US dollar's valuation in FX markets to the convenience
yield that foreign investors derive from holding US safe assets. We show that this …

A quantity-driven theory of term premia and exchange rates

R Greenwood, S Hanson, JC Stein… - The Quarterly Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We develop a model in which specialized bond investors must absorb shocks to the supply
and demand for long-term bonds in two currencies. Since long-term bonds and foreign …

The term structure of currency carry trade risk premia

H Lustig, A Stathopoulos, A Verdelhan - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Fixing the investment horizon, the returns to currency carry trades decrease as the maturity
of the foreign bonds increases. Across developed countries, the local currency term premia …

Imperfect exchange rate expectations

G Candian, P De Leo - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Using survey data, we document that predictable exchange rate forecast errors are
responsible for the uncovered-interest-parity (UIP) puzzle and its reversal at longer horizons …

Pricing currency risks

M Chernov, M Dahlquist, L Lochstoer - The Journal of Finance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The currency market features a small cross‐section, and conditional expected returns can
be characterized by few signals: interest differential, trend, and mean reversion. We exploit …

Exchange rate spillover, carry trades, and the COVID-19 pandemic

WS Mo, JJ Yang, YL Chen - Economic modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Although it is widely accepted that exchange rates are connected, what drives these
connections remains an unsettled question. We examine the interconnections and spillovers …

Asymmetric impact of Sino-US interest rate differentials and economic policy uncertainty ratio on RMB exchange rate

S Long, R Zhang, J Hao - … of International Financial Markets, Institutions and …, 2022 - Elsevier
By using the NARDL model, we investigate the asymmetric relationship between Sino-US
interest rate differentials, economic policy uncertainty (EPU) ratio, and the RMB exchange …

Foreign safe asset demand for US treasurys and the dollar

Z Jiang, A Krishnamurthy, H Lustig - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We present theory showing that the spot dollar exchange rate reflects the value of all future
convenience yields that foreign investors assign to US Treasuries. The convenience yield …

Puzzling exchange rate dynamics and delayed portfolio adjustment

P Bacchetta, E Van Wincoop - Journal of International Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to show that the proposal by Froot and Thaler (1990) of
delayed portfolio adjustment can account for a broad set of puzzles about the relationship …

The quanto theory of exchange rates

L Kremens, I Martin - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We present a new identity that relates expected exchange rate appreciation to a risk-neutral
covariance term, and use it to motivate a currency forecasting variable based on the prices …