Conditional Pricing of Currency Risk in Africa's Equity Market
| dc.contributor.author | Kodongo, Odongo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ojah, Kalu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-26T09:05:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-26T09:05:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-12-01 | |
| dc.description | HG 201 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we sought to establish whether Africa’s volatile currencies drive equity risk premium. We use the stochastic discount factor (SDF) framework to estimate various conditional specifications of the International Capital Asset Pricing Model through generalized method of moments technique. Our results show strong evidence of conditional, time-varying currency risk premium in equity returns. Currency risk is also perceived by international investors as important in informing the equities pricing kernel. We also find evidence that international investors are worried about Africa’s small size equity markets and build anticipated low trading into their pricing calculus. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | AERC | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-9966-61-047-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/handle/123456789/464 | |
| dc.publisher | AERC | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Research Paper 354;RESEARCH PAPER 354 | |
| dc.subject | currency risk | en_US |
| dc.subject | equity markets | en_US |
| dc.subject | stochastic discount factor | en_US |
| dc.subject | GMM | en_US |
| dc.subject | africa | en_US |
| dc.title | Conditional Pricing of Currency Risk in Africa's Equity Market | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |