Modeling FX market activity around macroeconomic news: a Hawkes process approach
We present a Hawkes model approach to foreign exchange market in which the high frequency price dynamics is affected by a self exciting mechanism and an exogenous component, generated by the pre-announced arrival of macroeconomic news. By focusing on time windows around the news announcement, we find that the model is able to capture the increase of trading activity after the news, both when the news has a sizeable effect on volatility and when this effect is negligible, either because the news in not important or because the announcement is in line with the forecast by analysts. We extend the model by considering non-causal effects, due to the fact that the existence of the news (but not its content) is known by the market before the announcement.
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2014-05
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Authors: | Rambaldi, Marcello ; Pennesi, Paris ; Lillo, Fabrizio |
Institutions: | arXiv.org |
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