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Interest Rate Arbitrage in Currency Baskets: Forecasting Weights and Measuring Risk

By Peter F. Christoffersen, Lorenzo Giorgianni

January 1, 1999

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Peter F. Christoffersen, and Lorenzo Giorgianni. Interest Rate Arbitrage in Currency Baskets: Forecasting Weights and Measuring Risk, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

When constructing hedged interest rate arbitrage portfolios for basket currencies, two issues arise: first, how are the unknown future basket weights optimally forecasted from past exchange rate data? And, second, how is risk—in terms of the conditional variance of expected profits from the interest rate arbitrage portfolio—appropriately measured when the basket weights are time-varying? Answers to these questions are provided within a time-varying parameter modeling framework estimated through the Kalman filter. An empirical application is devoted to the experience of the Thai baht currency basket (January 1992–February 1997).

Subject: Banking, Conventional peg, Currencies, Exchange rates, Expenditure, Financial regulation and supervision, Foreign exchange, Hedging, Money, Public expenditure review

Keywords: Basket weight, Cointegrating regression, Cointegration, Conventional peg, Cross-currency risk, Currencies, Dollar exchange rate, Dollar rate, Exchange rate, Exchange Rates, Hedging, Intervention rate, Public expenditure review, Risk-adjusted return, Standard deviation, Time-varying Parameters, U.S. dollar, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1999/016

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0161999

  • ISBN:

    9781451843385

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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