Exchange Rates and Sovereign Risk

125 Pages Posted: 14 May 2021

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Pasquale Della Corte

Imperial College Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Lucio Sarno

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

Maik Schmeling

Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Finance; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Christian Wagner

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF)

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Date Written: April 1, 2021

Abstract

An increase in a country's sovereign risk, as measured by credit default swap spreads, is accompanied by a contemporaneous depreciation of its currency and an increase of its volatility. The relation between currency excess returns and sovereign risk is mainly driven by default expectations (rather than distress risk premia) and exposure to global sovereign risk shocks, and also emerges in a predictive setting for currency risk premia. We show that a sovereign risk factor is priced in the cross-section of currency returns and that it is not subsumed by the carry factor.

JEL Classification: F31, G12, G15

Suggested Citation

Della Corte, Pasquale and Sarno, Lucio and Schmeling, Maik and Wagner, Christian, Exchange Rates and Sovereign Risk (April 1, 2021). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16058, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3846146

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Lucio Sarno

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School ( email )

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Maik Schmeling

Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Finance ( email )

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Germany

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Christian Wagner

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business ( email )

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Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF) ( email )

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