This paper investigates the relationship between the new monetary control procedures, implemented by the Federal Reserve Board in October 1979, and the subsequent increase in exchange rate variability for the United States. It shows that, in the context of a stochastic, rational expectations...

Rogoff predicted that the U.S. dollar will depreciate and that exchange rate volatility will return. The coronavirus crisis has also roiled the world economy. This paper investigates the exposure of French and Korean firm stock returns to exchange rate appreciations and the pandemic. Both France...

Firms in emerging markets are exposed to severe financial frictions and credit constraints, that are exacerbated by the sudden stop of capital inflows. Can monetary policy offset this external credit squeeze? We show that although this may be the case during moderate contractions (or in partial...

Substantially increased global corporate debt in the past decade revives macro stability concerns of foreign currency liability in emerging countries. Due to data unavailability, there is limited understanding of how the debt proceeds are used. We empirically study the use of proceeds of debt...

Foreign currency borrowings by emerging market corporations have increased significantly in the post-global financial crisis. Extant literature has mainly focused on the cause of the increase in foreign currency borrowings. In this paper, we study the consequences of the increase in foreign...

We estimate the time-varying co-movements of a large set of bilateral exchange rates/the RMB and explore their relationship with the firm-level exchange rate exposure in China. We find that firms’ exchange rate exposure increases in periods of high exchange rate co-movements. The co-movements...

This paper documents an economically significant risk premium associated with a currency’s sensitivity to time-varying risk aversion. Consequently, an investment strategy that takes a long (short) position in currencies with high (low) sensitivity to the aggregate market risk aversion yields...

Policymakers fear the potentially destabilizing impact of fickle global investors on emerging markets. Euro area investors are significant participants in emerging bond markets and exhibit volatile flows, but their fickleness does not result in indiscriminate periods of surge and flight....

We measure funding constraints in international currency markets by deviations in the covered interest rate parity. Our measure of funding risk is the standard deviation of the magnitude of the funding constraints. This funding risk measure appears to be driven by conditions in the financial...