This article examines the price discovery function around releases of macroeconomic announcements to explore the informational efficiency of prices in a 24-hour trading platform. We study the contribution to price discovery of four periods of trading, including the Asian, European, European-U.S....

This paper examines the impact of central bank intervention operation on the price discovery of ask and bid quotes in an electronic limit order market of USD-JPY. Based on both methods of Hasbrouck (1995) and Gonzalo and Granger (1995), we find bid quotes provide more price discovery in the...

To study the impact of institutional features of target zones on the conditional volatility of exchange rates, this paper proposes a simple and intuitive model to incorporate the announced information in the bands. Observing the statistical characteristics of the EMS cross rate returns- mean...

This paper analyzes the application of the Markov-switching ARCH model (Hamilton and Susmel, 1994) in improving value-at-risk (VaR) forecast. By considering a mixture of normal distributions with varying variances over different time and regimes, we find that the “spurious high...

This paper investigate whether the effects of U.S. news announcements has influence on liquidity commonality during financial crisis periods. We construct a market-wide liquidity risk in the foreign exchange market by using Generalized Dynamic Factor Model (GDFM) model. We show that strong...