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Do foreign exchange risk premiums relate to the volatility in the foreign exchange and equity markets?
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Do foreign exchange risk premiums relate to the volatility in the foreign exchange and equity markets?

Christine Jiang and Thomas Chiang
Applied financial economics, v 10(1)
01 Feb 2000

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Correlation analysis Foreign exchange rate risk Securities markets Statistical analysis Studies Volatility
Empirical tests are performed to examine whether foreign exchange excess returns for the British pound, Canadian dollar, Deutsche mark, and Japanese yen are related to volatility in the currency market and volatility in the stock markets. Results indicate that volatility from currency markets is significant in explaining the excess returns, suggesting that the excess returns are indeed reward for risk-taking. In addition, shocks in equity markets are found to have a significant impact on currency risk premium as well. In some cases, nonlinearity in the risk premium is found.

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