The failure of covered interest parity: FX hedging demand and costly balance sheets

CEV Borio, M Iqbal, RN McCauley, P McGuire… - 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
The failure of covered interest parity (CIP), or, equivalently, the persistence of cross-currency
basis, in tranquil markets has posed a puzzle. By analysing the term structure of CIP …

Currency mispricing and dealer balance sheets

G Cenedese, P Della Corte, T Wang - The Journal of Finance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We find dealer‐level evidence that recent regulation on the leverage ratio requirement
causes deviations from covered interest parity. Our analysis uses a unique data set of …

[PDF][PDF] Dollar Asset Holdings and Hedging Around the Globe

W Du, A Huber - 2024 - aeaweb.org
We analyze a large number of industry-and company-level filings of global institutional
investors to provide the first comprehensive estimate of foreign investors' US dollar (USD) …

Global currency hedging with common risk factors

W Opie, SJ Riddiough - Journal of Financial Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We develop a novel method to dynamically hedge foreign exchange exposure in
international equity and bond portfolios. The method exploits the time-series predictability of …

Currency hedging: Managing cash flow exposure

L Alfaro, M Calani, L Varela - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Foreign currency derivative markets are among the largest in the world, yet their role in
emerging markets is relatively understudied. We study firms' currency risk exposure and …

Centralizing over-the-counter markets?

J Allen, M Wittwer - Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
In traditional over-the-counter markets, investors trade bilaterally through intermediaries. We
assess whether and how to shift trades on a centralized platform with trade-level data on the …

[PDF][PDF] The market for inflation risk

S Bahaj, R Czech, S Ding, R Reis - 2023 - aeaweb.org
This paper uses transaction-level data on UK inflation swaps to characterize who buys and
sells inflation risk, when, and with what price elasticity. This provides measures of expected …

Stablecoin runs and the centralization of arbitrage

Y Ma, Y Zeng, AL Zhang - Available at SSRN 4398546, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We analyze the run risk of USD-backed stablecoins. Stablecoin issuers aim to keep the
stablecoin price at $1 by holding a portfolio of US dollar assets like bank deposits …

Covered interest parity arbitrage

D Rime, A Schrimpf, O Syrstad - The Review of Financial Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
To understand deviations from covered interest parity (CIP), it is crucial to account for
heterogeneity in funding costs across both banks and currency areas. For most market …

OTC intermediaries

AL Eisfeldt, B Herskovic, S Rajan… - The Review of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We study the effect of dealer exit on prices and quantities in a model of an over-the-counter
market featuring a core-periphery network with bilateral trading costs. The model is …