Estimates of Foreign Exchange Risk Premia: A Pricing Kernel Approach

Lorenzo Cappiello and Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou
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Lorenzo Cappiello: European Central Bank
Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou: Queen Mary, University of London

No 547, Working Papers from Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance

Abstract: The goal of this study is to measure market prices of risk and the associated foreign exchange risk premia extending the approach proposed by Balduzzi and Robotti (2001) to an international framework. Estimations of minimum variance stochastic discount factors permits the determination of market prices of risk, which, in turn, in an international framework, allow to compute foreign exchange risk premia. Market prices of risk are time-varying and surge during financial turmoil. This may be interpreted as an increase of the investors' coefficient of risk aversion during turbulent financial markets. Foreign exchange risk premia are also time-varying and they exhibit most variation from the early '70s onwards, when the Bretton Wood exchange rate system collapsed.

Keywords: Foreign exchange; Risk premia; Pricing kernel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 G12 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-10-01
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