Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?

Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum, Isaac Kleshchelski and Sergio Rebelo ()

The Review of Financial Studies, 2011, vol. 24, issue 3, 853-891

Abstract: We study the properties of the carry trade, a currency speculation strategy in which an investor borrows low-interest-rate currencies and lends high-interest-rate currencies. This strategy generates payoffs that are on average large and uncorrelated with traditional risk factors. We argue that these payoffs reflect a peso problem. The underlying peso event features high values of the stochastic discount factor rather than very large negative payoffs. The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2011
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