The World Price of Covariance Risk

Campbell Harvey ()

Journal of Finance, 1991, vol. 46, issue 1, 111-57

Abstract: In a financially integrated global market, the conditionally expected return on a portfolio of securities from a particular country is determined by the country's world risk exposure. This paper measures the conditional risk of seventeen countries. The reward per unit of risk is the world price of covariance risk. Although the tests provide evidence on the conditional mean variance efficiency of the benchmark portfolio, the results show that countries' risk exposures help explain differences in performance. Evidence is also presented which indicates that these risk exposures change through time and that the world price of covariance risk is not constant. Copyright 1991 by American Finance Association.

Date: 1991
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