Bibliographic citations
Caceres, M., (2023). Análisis del efecto de la estrategia de divisas carry trade sobre la asimetría de los retornos del tipo de cambio en el mercado cambiario peruano (2007 – 2022) [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/23992
Caceres, M., Análisis del efecto de la estrategia de divisas carry trade sobre la asimetría de los retornos del tipo de cambio en el mercado cambiario peruano (2007 – 2022) []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/23992
@misc{renati/531351,
title = "Análisis del efecto de la estrategia de divisas carry trade sobre la asimetría de los retornos del tipo de cambio en el mercado cambiario peruano (2007 – 2022)",
author = "Caceres Vasquez, Mariana",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2023"
}
The currency carry trade strategy consists of financing in currencies with low interest rates and investing in currencies with high interest rates. Although this speculative strategy can generate an appreciation of investment currencies, eventually may lead to a sharply devaluation of these currencies, which are typically from emerging countries like the Peruvian sol. In this investigation, the analysis of Brunnermeier et al. (2009), Cox and Carreño (2016) and Gamboa-Estrada (2017) are used as a basis. The hypothesis of the first paper is taken, adjusting it to the Peruvian context. The main hypothesis of this research is that the carry trade increases the currency crash risk of the Peruvian sol, measured by the skewness. The return of the carry trade is used as the incentive to carry out the strategy and the net position of non-delivery forward contracts of local banks as a proxy for the carry trade activity. Through an econometric analysis for the US dollar and the Peruvian sol for three horizons (quarterly, semiannual and annual), it is found that the carry trade between these two currencies exhibits a crash risk for the Peruvian sol within the annual horizon. Further, a variable of Central Bank foreign exchange intervention is added to the analysis, and it is found that it contributes to controlling the risks associated to the carry trade. Subsequently, when excluding periods of crisis from the observations, it is found that the impact of the carry trade on the skewness is greater in times of lower volatility.
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