Anusha Chari , Karlye Dilts Stedman , Christian Lundblad
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Risk-on/risk-off: Measuring shifts in investor risk bearing capacity
This paper defines risk-on/risk-off (RORO), an elusive terminology in pervasive use, as high frequency variation in global investor risk taking behavior. Our daily RORO index captures time-varying investor risk appetite across multiple dimensions: advanced economy credit risk, equity market volatility, funding conditions, and currency dynamics. The index exhibits risk-off skewness and fat tails, suggesting its amplifying potential for extreme, destabilizing events. Compared to other measures, our index reflects the diverse provenance of investor behavior (and therefore of risk) in a parsimonious form. Practical applications of the RORO index highlight its valuable role in understanding international portfolio reallocation and return predictability.
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Since its launch in 1982, Journal of International Money and Finance has built up a solid reputation as a high quality scholarly journal devoted to theoretical and empirical research in the fields of international monetary economics, international finance, and the rapidly developing overlap area between the two. Researchers in these areas, and financial market professionals too, pay attention to the articles that the journal publishes. Authors published in the journal are in the forefront of scholarly research on exchange rate behaviour, foreign exchange options, international capital markets, international monetary and fiscal policy, international transmission and related questions.