Discussion paper

DP12610 Currency Risk Factors in a Recursive Multicountry Economy

Focusing on the ten most traded currencies, we provide empirical evidence regarding a significant heterogeneous exposure to global growth news shocks. We incorporate this empirical fact in a frictionless risk-sharing model with recursive preferences, multiple countries, and multiple consumption goods whose supply features both global and local short- and long-run shocks. Since news shocks are priced, heterogenous exposure to long-lasting global growth shocks results in a relevant reallocation of international resources and currency adjustments. Our unified framework replicates the properties of the HML-FX and HML-NFA carry-trade strategies studied by Lustig et al. (2011) and Della Corte et al. (2013).

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Citation

Croce, M and R Colacito (2018), ‘DP12610 Currency Risk Factors in a Recursive Multicountry Economy‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 12610. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp12610