Granular Investors and International Bond Prices: Scarcity-Induced Safety

Ester Faia, Juliana Salomao and Alexia Ventula Veghazy

No 17454, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: With a unique dataset of euro area corporate bonds we study the role of large heterogeneous investors’ demand on currency pricing. We docu- ment that while insurance and pension funds exhibit strong preferences for holding assets issued by local firms and denominated in home currency; mutual funds do not. Motivated by this segmentation, we estimate the impact of investor demand on euro-dollar return differentials (hedged and unhedged) for given security and issuer. These differentials decline as ECB asset purchases induce a drain in euro securities. A dynamic portfolio optimization model of bonds in different currencies, where heterogeneous risk-attitudes lead to UIP deviations and regulation to CIP ones, accounts for the facts.

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Date: 2022-07
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