On Time-Series Properties of Time-Varying Risk Premium in the Yen/Dollar Exchange Market
32 Pages Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last revised: 29 Oct 2022
Date Written: August 1988
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to characterize the changes in risk premium in the 1980s. A five-variable vector autoregressive model (VAR) is constructed to calculate a risk premium series in the foreign exchange market. The risk premium series is volatile and time-varying. The hypothesis of no risk premium is strongly rejected for the entire sample and each of the two subsamples considered. Various tests using the constructed risk premium series suggest that a risk premium existed but it was neither constant nor stable over subsamples and that its volatility was considerably reduced after October 1982.
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