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Do the carry trades respond to geopolitical risks? Evidence from BRICS countries

Oguzhan Cepni, Furkan Emirmahmutoglu, Ibrahim Ethem Guney and Muhammed Hasan Yilmaz

Economic Systems, 2023, vol. 47, issue 2

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the implications of geopolitical risks on the return and volatility of carry trade transactions in the context of BRICS countries for the period 2006–2020. Fixed effects regressions considering the sample countries as a single portfolio document that geopolitical risks are correlated with volatility, while the results are inconclusive for returns. The non-parametric time-varying coefficients panel data estimations further indicate that the effect of geopolitical risks on carry trade volatility is amplified during the Global Financial Crisis and the post-2016 episode. Moving to the disaggregated data, the time-varying robust Granger causality test of Rossi and Wang (2019) show that geopolitical risks have a significant in-sample predictive power for both carry trade return and volatility during a myriad of sub-periods, which can not be captured by standard constant parameter techniques in the presence of instabilities. Overall, our empirical results suggest that the exposure to geopolitical risks should be taken into account by global investors for risk diversification purposes when entering carry trade positions in BRICS countries.

Keywords: RICS countries; Carry trade; Geopolitical risks; Non-parametric time-varying coefficients panel regression; Time-varying Granger causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C32 C52 G12 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2022.101000

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