NBER Working Paper: Five Facts about the UIP Premium

Author(s): Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan and Liliana Varela Date: May 2022 Abstract: We document five novel facts about Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) deviations vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar for 34 currencies, during 1996-2018. 1) The UIP premium co-moves with global risk perception (VIX) for all currencies, whereas only for emerging market currencies there is a negative comovement between[…]