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Title: Currency Premia and Global Imbalances

Author(s): Pasquale Della Corte, Steven Riddiough and Lucio Sarno

Publication Date: February 2016

Keyword(s): carry trade, currency risk premium, foreign exchange excess returns and global imbalances

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics and International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: We show that a global imbalance risk factor that captures the spread in countries' external imbalances and their propensity to issue external liabilities in foreign currency explains the cross-sectional variation in currency excess returns. The economic intuition is simple: net debtor countries offer a currency risk premium to compensate investors willing to finance negative external imbalances because their currencies depreciate in bad times. This mechanism is consistent with exchange rate theory based on capital flows in imperfect financial markets. We also find that the global imbalance factor is priced in cross sections of other major asset markets.

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Della Corte, P, Riddiough, S and Sarno, L. 2016. 'Currency Premia and Global Imbalances'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11129