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The yen–dollar risk premium: A story of regime shifts in bond markets

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  • Cho, Sungjun
  • Hyde, Stuart
  • Liu, Liu

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We document a new risk premium in the yen–dollar currency pair that compensates for the uncertainty over regime shifts in the bond market. We estimate a no-arbitrage regime-switching term structure model, where the transition of volatility regimes is driven by the level of yields and is associated with a regime risk premium. We find that the currency excess return is explained by the regime risk premium in Japan in the second half of 1990s and in the US at the height of the Great Recession. The regime risk premium contains information beyond the affine model, the forward premium, and the carry and dollar factors.

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  • Cho, Sungjun & Hyde, Stuart & Liu, Liu, 2022. "The yen–dollar risk premium: A story of regime shifts in bond markets," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:intfin:v:78:y:2022:i:c:s1042443122000221
    DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2022.101531
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    Keywords

    Exchange rates; Term structure; Regime switching;
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    JEL classification:

    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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