Exchange Rates and Sovereign Risk

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. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, finance.

• 저널Management Science · 68(8) · 5591–5617
• 토픽Credit Risk and Financial Regulations · Finance
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.2021.4115
• 저자Pasquale Della Corte, Lucio Sarno, Maik Schmeling, Christian Wagner