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Intra-day interest rates are zero. Consequently, a foreign exchange dealer can short a vulnerable currency in the morning, close this position in the afternoon, and never face an interest cost. This tactic might seem especially attractive in times of crisis, since it suggests an immunity to the...
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market. This can explain the empirical facts that after public announcements trading volume increases, more private …
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We investigate the distribution of trading volume across different venues after a company lists abroad. In most cases …-sectional variation in the persistence and magnitude of foreign trading. The ratio between foreign and domestic trading volume is higher …
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inefficient equilibrium, characterized by low trading volume and low liquidity. …
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, quoting activity, trading volume and bid-ask spreads in the overnight deposit segment. Volatility and spreads increase right …
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Does global currency volume increase on days when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets? To test the … hypothesis of excess currency volume on FOMC days, we use a novel data set from the Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) Bank. The … CLS measure captures roughly half of the global trading volume in foreign exchange (FX) markets. We find strong evidence …
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control for several other determinants of trading volume in a cross-sectional regression analysis. In connection with other … hypothesis by correlating individual overconfidence scores with several measures of trading volume of individual investors … control, unrealistic optimism). The measures of trading volume were calculated by the trades of 215 individual investors who …
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34 recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 754 point estimates of the effect. This Paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state of debate; meta-analysis is used to combine the disparate estimates. The chief findings are that: a) the...
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Deliberately or not, by providing its stance on the prospects of the economy, rationalizing past decisions or announcing future actions, central banks influence financial markets' expectations of its future policy. In bad times, monetary policy communication inducing an upward revision of the...
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This paper argues that the stock market crash of 2008, triggered by a collapse in house prices, caused the Great Recession. The paper has three parts. First, it provides evidence of a high correlation between the value of the stock market and the unemployment rate in U.S. data since 1929....
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