The conditional capital asset pricing model is applied to foreign currency futures prices, covariance risk being measured relative to excess returns from a broadly diversified portfolio of equities. Positive time-varing risk premia are found in all five currencies tested when the difference...

We investigate covariation of payoffs from spot and futures positions in foreign currency markets. The weights in a hedged position are determined by the prices of futures and spot contracts and by foreign and domestic interest rates. Evaluating this hedged position using an intertemporal...

We examine the form of heteroskedasticity in Deutsche Mark futures price data and compare different specifications of the particular way that the variance is changing over time. The martingale hypothesis is tested with daily and weekly rates of change of futures prices for the Deutsche Mark and...