cross-section of currency risk premia and US consumption growth risk
By: by Hanno Lustig, Adrien Verdelhan.
Contributors: Verdelhan, Adrien.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 11104.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 11104.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Foreign exchange rates -- Econometric models; Investments -- United States -- Econometric models
Description: "Aggregate consumption growth risk explains why low interest rate currencies do not appreciate as much as the interest rate differential and why high interest rate currencies do not depreciate as much as the interest rate differential. We sort foreign T-bills into portfolios based on the nominal interest rate differential with the US, and we test the Euler equation of a US investor who invests in these currency portfolios. US investors earn negative excess returns on low interest rate currency portfolios and positive excess returns on high interest rates currency portfolios. We find that low interest rate currencies provide US investors with a hedge against US aggregate consumption growth risk, because these currencies appreciate on average when US consumption growth is low, while high interest rate currencies depreciate when US consumption growth is low. As a result, the risk premia predicted by the Consumption-CAPM match the average excess returns on these currency portfolios"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: "February 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).

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