Arbeitspapier
The Impact of Currency Movements on Asset Value Correlations
This paper looks at the asset correlation bias resulting from firms' assets and liabilities being denominated in different currencies. It focuses on the time-variation in the bias and on the dependency of the bias on currency movements. Both the volatility of the exchange rate and the correlations between the asset values and the exchange rate affect the bias and we find the sensitivity of the bias to the former to be greatest. Despite this, and as a result of the wide fluctuations of the asset value - exchange rate correlations over the last ten to fifteen years, the asset value - exchange rate correlation's net effect on the bias is more significant, economically. Overall, we find that the asset correlation bias for the average pair of firms in the Dow Jones Industrial Average index is significant for the better part of the 2000-2013 time period. The bias fluctuates widely, however, and it has turned negative for shorter periods. The policy implication of the paper is that by ignoring the exchange rate component when computing portfolio credit risk one may materially underestimate the actual risk. Particularly at times of frequent and significant exchange rate movements.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2013:33
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Foreign Exchange
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)
International Financial Markets
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Bankruptcy; Liquidation
- Subject
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asset correlation
time-variation
sensitivity
exchange rate
currency risk
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Byström, Hans
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
- (where)
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Lund
- (when)
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Byström, Hans
- Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2013
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