The Swiss franc safety premium

Abstract This paper applies a recent method proposed by Maggiori (The U.S. Dollar Safety Premium, 2013) to estimate the Swiss franc safety premium. The results show that the three-step instrumental variable approach as used by Maggiori does not work for the Swiss franc exchange rates. The price of r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jessica Leutert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-04-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-017-0014-7