Intra-safe haven currency behavior during the global financial crisis

Rasmus Fatum and Yohei Yamamoto

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2016, vol. 66, issue C, 49-64

Abstract: We investigate intra-safe haven currency behavior during the recent global financial crisis. We first assess which safe haven currency is the “safest”. We then use non-temporal threshold analysis to investigate whether intra-safe haven currency behavior changes as market uncertainty increases. We find that the JPY is the “safest” of safe haven currencies and that only the JPY appreciates as market uncertainty increases regardless of the prevailing level of uncertainty. Our results may have important implications for central banks optimizing their relative composition of international currency reserve holdings with respect to returns in USD terms and for foreign currency market investors in general.

Keywords: Safe haven currencies; Global financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2015.12.007

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