The Global Factor Structure of Exchange Rates

52 Pages Posted: 7 Oct 2020 Last revised: 16 Sep 2024

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Sofonias Alemu Korsaye

Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School

Fabio Trojani

University of Geneva; University of Turin - Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics; Swiss Finance Institute

Andrea Vedolin

Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics

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Date Written: October 2020

Abstract

We provide a model-free framework to study the global factor structure of exchange rates. To this end, we propose a new methodology to estimate international stochastic discount factors (SDFs) that jointly price cross-sections of international assets, such as stocks, bonds, and currencies, in the presence of frictions. We theoretically establish a two-factor representation for the cross-section of international SDFs, consisting of one global and one local factor, which is independent of the currency denomination. We show that our two-factor specification prices a large cross-section of international asset returns, not just in- but also out-of-sample with R2s of up to 80%.

Suggested Citation

Korsaye, Sofonias Alemu and Trojani, Fabio and Vedolin, Andrea, The Global Factor Structure of Exchange Rates (October 2020). NBER Working Paper No. w27892, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3705103

Sofonias Alemu Korsaye (Contact Author)

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Fabio Trojani

University of Geneva ( email )

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University of Turin - Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics ( email )

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Andrea Vedolin

Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics ( email )

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