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

Author(s): Alberto Giovannini

Publication Date: March 1988

Keyword(s): Asset Returns, Capital-Asset-Pricing Model, Conditional Variance, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Risk Premia and Time-Varying

Programme Area(s): Applied Macroeconomics

Abstract: Recent empirical work indicates that, in a variety of financial markets, both conditional expectations and conditional variances of asset 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 (CAPM). 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 on returns to a portfolio composed of dollar, Deutschmark, sterling, and Swiss franc assets, together with United States equities. 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 CAPM are always rejected.

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Giovannini, A. 1988. 'The Time Variation of Risk and Return in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=228