Currency Regimes and the Carry Trade

Olivier Accominotti, Jason Cen, David Chambers and Ian Marsh ()

No 13571, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This study exploits a new long-run data set of daily bid and offered exchange rates in spot and forward markets from 1919 to the present to analyze carry returns in fixed and floating currency regimes. We first find that outsized carry returns occur exclusively in the floating regime, being zero in the fixed regime. Second, we show that fixed-to-floating regime shifts are associated with negative returns to a carry strategy implemented only on floating currencies, robust to the inclusion of volatility risks. These shifts are typically characterized by global flight-to-safety events that represent bad times for carry traders.

Keywords: Exchange rate regime; Carry trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 G12 G15 N20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03
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