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Abstract
The authors examine the relation between two global risk factors of co-skewness and co-kurtosis and the cross-section of currency excess returns arising from well-known strategies that borrow in currencies with low interest rates and invest in currencies with high interest rates—so-called carry trades. These global factors are constructed by distinguishing between U.S.-specific and global components of the market return. The authors find that currencies with high interest rates are negatively related to global co-skewness and thus deliver low returns in times of unexpected high global co-skewness, during which time currencies with low interest rates can provide a hedge by yielding positive returns. Their findings show that global co-skewness and co-kurtosis are key drivers of risk premia in exchange markets and are robust to various checks.
TOPICS: Fixed income and structured finance, analysis of individual factors/risk premia, statistical methods
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