 What do financial markets say about the exchange rate?Mikhail Chernov, Valentin Haddad and Oleg Itskhoki No 19071, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research Abstract: We develop a general framework characterizing when exchange rates connect or disconnect from fundamentals across different financial market structures. International portfolio risk sharing governs how tightly exchange rates track households’ stochastic discount factors. We introduce a tractable sufficient statistic for connect: the prevalence of globally-traded risks, the component of asset risks that households in both countries can trade through available financial instruments. When globally-traded risks dominate, exchange rate puzzles persist regardless of market structure. In turn, disconnect requires neither extreme segmentation nor thin financial markets; it emerges whenever globally-traded risks are limited. Empirically, cross-country asset return correlations are weak, implying modest amount of globally-traded risks and pervasive disconnect in intermediated market structures. When correlations increase, as observed post-2008 or during high-risk episodes, exchange rates track fundamentals more closely. JEL-codes: E44 F31 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:19071 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK. |
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