The first arrow hitting the currency target: A long-run risk perspective

Takashi Kano and Kenji Wada

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2017, vol. 74, issue C, 337-352

Abstract: This paper reconsiders the successful currency outcome of the first arrow of Abenomics. The Japanese yen depreciation against the U.S. dollar after the introduction of the first arrow co-moves tightly with long-term yield differentials between Japan and the United States. The estimated term structure of the sensitivity of the currency return of the Japanese yen to the two-country interest rate differential indeed shifts up and becomes steeper after the onset of Abenomics. To explain this structural change in the term structure of the Fama regression coefficient, we employ a long-run risk model endowed with real and nominal conditional volatilities as in Bansal and Shaliastovich (2013). Under a plausible calibration, the model replicates the structural change when nominal uncertainty dominates real uncertainty in the U.S. bond market. We conjecture that the arrow was shot off from the U.S. side, not the Japan side.

Keywords: Japanese yen/U.S. dollar exchange rate; Term structure; Fama regression; Long-run risk; Abenomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 E58 F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.02.024

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