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Carry Trades and Currency Crashes
Markus Konrad Brunnermeier
Stefan Nagel
Lasse Heje Pedersen
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 2008
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZfHocQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This paper documents that carry traders are subject to crash risk: i.e. exchange rate movements between high-interest-rate and low-interest-rate currencies are negatively skewed. We argue that this negative skewness is due to sudden unwinding of carry trades, which tend to occur in periods in which risk appetite and funding liquidity decrease. Funding liquidity measures predict exchange rate movements, and controlling for liquidity helps explain the uncovered interest-rate puzzle. Carry-trade losses reduce future crash risk, but increase the price of crash risk. We also document excess co-movement among currencies with similar interest rate. Our findings are consistent with a model in which carry traders are subject to funding liquidity constraints.