期刊名称:Departmental Discussion Papers / University of Glasgow, Department of Economics
出版年度:2008
卷号:1
出版社:University of Glasgow, Department of Economics
摘要:Existing empirical evidence suggests that the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity (UIRP)
condition may not hold due to an exchange risk premium. For a panel data set of eleven
emerging European economies we decompose this exchange risk premium into an
idiosyncratic (country-specific) elements and a common factor using a principal
components approach. We present evidence of a stationary idiosyncratic component and
nonstationary common factor. This result leads to the conclusion of a nonstationary risk
premium for these countries and a violation of the UIRP in the long-run, which is in
contrast to previous studies often documenting a stationary premium in developed
countries. Furthermore, we report that the variation in the premium is largely
attributable to a common factor influenced by economic developments in the United
States.