The Time-Variation of Risk and Return in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets

Alberto Giovannini and Philippe Jorion

No 2573, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Recent empirical work indicates that, in a variety of financial markets, both conditional expectations and conditional variances of returns are time- varying. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether these joint fluctuations of conditional first and second moments are consistent with the Sharpe-Lintner-Mossin capital-asset-pricing model. We test the mean-variance model under several different assumptions about the time-variation of conditional second moments of returns, using weekly data from July 1974 to December 1986, that include returns on a portfolio composed of dollar, Deutsche mark, Sterling, and Swiss franc assets, together with the US stock market. The model is estimated constraining risk premia to depend on the time-varying conditional covariance matrix of the residuals of the expected returns equations. The results indicate that estimated conditional variances cannot explain the observed time-variation of risk premia. Furthermore, the constraints imposed by the static CAPH are always rejected.

Date: 1988-05
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Published as The Journal of Finance, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, pp. 307-325, (June 1989).

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