On Time-Series Properties of Time-Varying Risk Premium in the Yen/Dollar Exchange Market

Fabio Canova and Takatoshi Ito ()

No 2678, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to characterize the changes in risk premium in the 1980s. A five-variable vector autoregressive model (VAR) is constructed to calculate a risk premium series in the foreign exchange market. The risk premium series is volatile and time-varying. The hypothesis of no risk premium is strongly rejected for the entire sample and each of the two subsamples considered. Various tests using the constructed risk premium series suggest that a risk premium existed but it was neither constant nor stable over subsamples and that its volatility was considerably reduced after October 1982.

Date: 1988-08
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Published as "The Time-Series Properties of the Risk Premium in the Yen/Dollar Exchange Market." From Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 6, pp. 125-142, (1991) .

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