Over the past two decades international markets have become more open, leading to a common perception that global capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation would imply about the diversification potential across...

This paper presents a survey of two basic puzzles in international finance. The first puzzle is the `predictable excess return puzzle.' The returns on foreign currency deposits relative to domestic currency deposits should be equalized based upon uncovered interest parity. However, not only do...

Recent research in international business cycles finds that international consumption co-movements do not match the risk- sharing predictions of standard complete markets models. In this paper, I ask whether two different types of explanations can help explain this result: 1) non-separabilities...

The relationship between foreign exchange intervention and monetary policy underlies the question of whether sterilized interventions can affect the exchange rate. In this article, I examine this relationship using data on U.S. foreign exchange interventions from 1985 to 1990, recently made...

Foreign exchange returns exhibit behavior difficult to reconcile with standard theoretical models. This paper asks whether the recent findings of long swings in exchange rates between appreciating and depreciating periods affect estimates of the foreign exchange risk premium. We demonstrate how...

Recent empirical studies suggest that nominal interest rates and expected inflation do not move together one for one in the long run, a finding at odds with many theoretical models. This paper shows that these results can be deceptive when the process followed by inflation shifts infrequently....