Showing 1 - 10 of 30,276
Recent studies have shown that disaster risk can generate asset return moments similar to those observed in the U.S. data. However, these studies have ignored the cross-country asset pricing implications of the disaster risk model. This paper shows that standard U.S.-based disaster risk model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352400
growths on average relative to the rest of the world (ROW). This is earned even though the US is relatively insulated against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077659
of the US stock market vis-a ́-vie the rest of the world (ROW) during global bad times. Finally dollar strength is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237177
Global risks allow theoretical models of the currency market to explain currency risk premia. Yet, there is no consensus in the empirical literature on which factors can represent global risks. We develop an asset pricing test for global risk factors that relies on the key assumption of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897985
more foreign assets, as predicted by the theory. Despite the positive effects of beta, a country's idiosyncratic volatility …. International risk is defined as the beta of a country’s consumption growth with world consumption growth. High-beta countries hold …, but also future consumption growth. High-volatility countries have worse net foreign asset positions, suggesting that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715562
assets do not exhibit the U-shaped intraday volatility pattern that has been documented for US equities, even if only main … trading hours are considered. Intraday spikes in volatility are driven by the open or close of the market for the respective … volatility patterns, and US macroeconomic news account for a sizable fraction of jump-driven volatility. For some -- but not all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022677
This paper investigates the effect of domestic and global uncertainty on the volatility of the Mexican peso US dollar … derive an exchange rate volatility measure by estimating a univariate GARCH(1,1) model. In the second stage, we regress the … estimated exchange rate volatility on domestic and global uncertainty proxies, built with data from the survey of professional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897453
While flexible exchange rates facilitate stabilisation, exchange rate fluctuations can cause real volatility. This … gives policy importance to the causal relationship between exchange rate depreciation and its volatility. An exchange rate … this: depreciation makes exchange rate more volatile for all but volatility does not causes depreciation in Tanzania which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728852
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153033
We analyze the impact of the introduction of credit default swaps (CDS) on real decision making within the firm and the influence of firms' local economic and legal environments on that impact. We extend the model of Bolton and Oehmke (2011) to take into account uncertainty about whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830087