FIGURE 15.1 Plot of the deviation from long-term CIP (as defined in Eq. (15.5)) for 5-year government benchmark bonds for the British pound,
Euro, Japanese yen, and Swiss franc against the US dollar. Positive values represent the potential borrowing cost savings (in bps) from issuing in
each of the respective foreign currencies and swapping the proceeds into US dollars using 5-year currency swaps. As evident in the figure, it would
have been more expensive to borrow abroad and hedge the proceeds back into US dollars throughout most of the sample period for all currencies
but the British pound, with the difference in borrowing costs being particularly large in the periods immediately following the Russian default and
LTCM crisis in the fall of 1998 and the credit crisis in the fall of 2008.