Date of Award

4-2024

Degree Type

Doctoral Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Department

Jack Welch College of Business & Technology

Comments

Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration in Finance Sacred Heart University, Jack Welch College of Business and Technology, Sacred Heart University.

Dissertation Number DBA 01/2024

Dissertation Supervisor

Dr. Lucjan T. Orlowski

Committee Member

Dr. Ali M. Kutan

Committee Member

Dr. Lorán Chollete

Abstract

This research will examine how the Jump Diffusion Model 1 (JDM) accurately outperforms Geometric Brownian Motion2 (GBM) when forecasting the Japanese Yen carry trade daily returns for the BRICs' and three bellwether currency pairs GBP/JPY, EUR/JPY, and PLN/JPY from January 2, 2012, to September 30, 2023. An added innovation within this research is the inclusion of the interest rate return in arriving at the daily cumulative carry trade returns. This is a distinctive and unique feature that offers a different perspective, since many journal articles do not discuss or address the interest earned (long position) component of the FX Carry trade. The focus of this paper will be on the uncovered interest rate parity. This research will comprehensively evaluate multiple regression modeling for the (JDM) and (GBM) in isolation, mean reversion, volatility, plus back-testing forecasted versus actual total dollar returns within in and out ofsample time series for both models.

JEL Classification

C32, C53, C58, E44, F31, F37, G11, G12, G15

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.


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