What Do Stock Markets Tell Us About Exchange Rates?

75 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2014 Last revised: 4 Jul 2015

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Gino Cenedese

Fulcrum Asset Management

Richard Payne

City University London - The Business School

Lucio Sarno

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Giorgio Valente

Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR)

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Date Written: July 3, 2015

Abstract

The sign of the correlation between equity returns and exchange rate returns can be positive or negative in theory. Using data for a broad set of 42 countries, we find that exchange rate movements are in fact unrelated to differentials in country-level equity returns. Consequently, a trading strategy that invests in countries with the highest expected equity returns and shorts those with the lowest generates substantial returns and Sharpe ratios. These returns partially reflect compensation for global equity volatility risk, but significant excess returns remain after controlling for exposure to standard risk factors.

Keywords: Empirical Asset Pricing, Exchange Rates, Uncovered Equity Parity, International Asset Allocation

JEL Classification: F31, G15

Suggested Citation

Cenedese, Gino and Payne, Richard G. and Sarno, Lucio and Valente, Giorgio, What Do Stock Markets Tell Us About Exchange Rates? (July 3, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2467707 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2467707

Gino Cenedese

Fulcrum Asset Management ( email )

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Richard G. Payne (Contact Author)

City University London - The Business School ( email )

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Lucio Sarno

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School ( email )

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Cambridge, CB2 1AG
United Kingdom

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London
United Kingdom

Giorgio Valente

Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) ( email )

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88 Queensway
Hong Kong
China

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