Local risk factors in emerging markets: Are they separately priced? |
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Authors: | Francesca Carrieri Vihang Errunza Basma Majerbi |
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Institution: | aDesautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A1G5;bUniversity of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2 |
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Abstract: | We provide new evidence on the pricing of local risk factors in emerging stock markets. We investigate whether there is a significant local currency premium together with a domestic market risk premium in equity returns within a partial integration asset pricing model. Given previous evidence on currency risk, we conduct empirical tests in a conditional setting with time-varying prices of risk. Our main results support the hypothesis of a significant exchange risk premium related to the local currency risk. Exchange rate and domestic market risks are priced separately for our sample of seven emerging markets. The empirical evidence also suggests that although statistically significant, local currency risk is on average smaller than domestic market risk but it increases substantially during crises periods, when it can be almost as large as market risk. Disentangling these two factors is thus important in tests of international asset pricing for emerging markets. |
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Keywords: | International asset pricing Currency risk Local market risk Emerging markets Integration Segmentation |
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