Volatility Shocks and Currency Returns
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| author | Babiak, Mykola Barunik, Jozef |
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| contents | This paper examines how shocks to currency volatilities predict exchange rates. Using option-implied volatilities, we construct a dynamic, directed network of volatility connections. Currencies that transmit more volatility shocks, which control for common correlation, earn lower excess returns. Buying the weakest and selling the strongest transmitters delivers high risk-adjusted performance, driven by spot exchange rate movements and not explained by standard factors. A general equilibrium model shows that volatility transmission related to idiosyncratic shocks proxies for priced country-specific risk. Assuming a monotonic amplification of domestic idiosyncratic risk, volatility transmission forecasts negatively future excess returns, consistent with the empirical evidence. |
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| spellingShingle | Volatility Shocks and Currency Returns Babiak, Mykola Barunik, Jozef General Finance Pricing of Securities This paper examines how shocks to currency volatilities predict exchange rates. Using option-implied volatilities, we construct a dynamic, directed network of volatility connections. Currencies that transmit more volatility shocks, which control for common correlation, earn lower excess returns. Buying the weakest and selling the strongest transmitters delivers high risk-adjusted performance, driven by spot exchange rate movements and not explained by standard factors. A general equilibrium model shows that volatility transmission related to idiosyncratic shocks proxies for priced country-specific risk. Assuming a monotonic amplification of domestic idiosyncratic risk, volatility transmission forecasts negatively future excess returns, consistent with the empirical evidence. |
| title | Volatility Shocks and Currency Returns |
| topic | General Finance Pricing of Securities |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09738 |