This paper proposes a preference-based general equilibrium model that explains various pricing features of currency and currency options. The central ingredients are i) a variable disaster component that is highly but imperfectly shared across countries, and ii) the separation of EIS from risk...

This paper proposes a preference-based general equilibrium model that explains various pricing features of currency and currency options. The central ingredients are i) a variable disaster component that is highly but imperfectly shared across countries; and ii) the separation of EIS from risk...

Spot foreign exchange (FX) rates usually exhibit volatility clustering and regime switching in a finite number of states due to change in macroeconomic factors or financial crises. We provide regime-switching evidence based on yield-curves data under the Markov-modulated diffusion (MMD) model. A...