A preferred-habitat model of term premia, exchange rates, and monetary policy spillovers

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Walker Ray and Dimitri Vayanos

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Abstract: We develop a two-country model in which currency and bond markets are populated by different investor clienteles, and segmentation is partly overcome by arbitrageurs with limited capital. Risk premia in our model are time-varying, connected across markets, and consistent with the empirical violations of uncovered interest parity and expectations hypothesis. Through risk premia, large-scale bond purchases lower domestic and foreign bond yields and depreciate the currency, and short-rate cuts lower foreign yields, with smaller effects than bond purchases. Currency returns are disconnected from long-maturity bond returns, and yet the currency market is instrumental in transmitting bond demand shocks across countries.

JEL-codes: E43 E44 E52 F31 G12 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2025-11-06
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Published in American Economic Review, 6, November, 2025, 115(11), pp. 3788 – 3824. ISSN: 0002-8282

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Journal Article: A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers (2025)
Working Paper: A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers (2022)
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