Monetary Unification and the Price of Risk: An Unconditional Analysis

Review of World Economics, Vol. 139, No. 2, pp. 276-305, 2003.

32 Pages Posted: 11 Dec 2001

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Hans Dewachter

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Department of Economics; Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

Stan Maes

European Commission - DG Internal market and financial services; European Commission - DG Competition; KU Leuven - Department of Economics

Kristien Smedts

KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)

Abstract

This paper assesses the effects of monetary unification in Europe on the pricing behavior in financial markets and more in particular on excess returns. We use the standard IAPT framework to analyze the role of the exchange rate in separating excess return pricing accross European countries. We find that, already in the decade prior to EMU, exchange rate changes do not (unconditionally) correlate strongly with financial market movements across countries. Consequently elimination of exchange rate variability through monetary unification is not likely to have had major implications for pricing behavior in EMU markets.

Keywords: EMU, multi-country asset pricing model, exchange risk, price of risk conversion

JEL Classification: F21, G12, G15

Suggested Citation

Dewachter, Hans and Maes, Konstantijn and Maes, Konstantijn and Smedts, Kristien, Monetary Unification and the Price of Risk: An Unconditional Analysis. Review of World Economics, Vol. 139, No. 2, pp. 276-305, 2003., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=293080 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.293080

Hans Dewachter

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Leuven, B-3000
Belgium

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