Countercyclical currency risk premia

We describe a novel currency investment strategy, the ‘dollar carry trade,’ which delivers large excess returns, uncorrelated with the returns on well-known carry trade strategies. Using a no-arbitrage model of exchange rates we show that these excess returns compensate U.S. investors for taking on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lustig, Hanno, Roussanov, Nikolai, Verdelhan, Adrien Frederic
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114867
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0319-5531