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Dodging the steamroller: Fundamentals versus the carry trade
Although, according to uncovered interest rate parity, exchange rates should move so as to prevent the carry trade being systematically profitable, there is a vast empirical literature demonstrating the opposite. High interest currencies more often tend to appreciate rather than depreciate, as noted by Fama (1983). In this paper, we treat volatility as the critical state variable and show that positive returns to the carry trade are overwhelmingly generated in the low-volatility "normal" state, whereas the high-volatility state is associated with lower returns or with losses as currencies revert to the long run level approximated by their mean real exchange rate - in other words, purchasing-power parity (PPP) tends to reassert itself, at least to some extent, during periods of turbulence. We confirm these results by comparing the returns from three possible monthly trading strategies.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Cardiff Economics Working Papers ; No. E2013/11
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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carry trade
trading strategies
currency portfolios
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Copeland, Laurence
Lu, Wenna
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School
- (wo)
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Cardiff
- (wann)
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2013
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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- Arbeitspapier
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- Copeland, Laurence
- Lu, Wenna
- Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School
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- 2013
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