Showing 1 - 10 of 579
meaningful risk-return relation in the FX market. Further analysis shows that liquidity risk also matters for expected FX returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867494
liquidity until their collapse. An official report (SIC, 2010) has, however, exposed severe weaknesses in the banks’ assets and … borrowers, while they should have been deleveraging and securing their liquidity positions in foreign currency. The banks also … before the collapse of October 2008 the banks all reported strong liquidity positions. These reports were misleading, but we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084274
. Theory consistent with dollar appreciation in the crisis suggests that their impact should be greater for countries that have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293988
The carry trade is the investment strategy of going long in high-yield target currencies and short in low-yield funding currencies. Recently, this naive trade has seen very high returns for long periods, followed by large crash losses after large depreciations of the target currencies. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491718
We study a model where the aggregate trading of currency speculators reveals new information to the central bank and affects its policy decision. We show that the learning process gives rise to coordination motives among speculators leading to large currency attacks and introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468601
The main conclusions of this paper are the following. In order to minimize switching costs, the name of the new EU currency should be the Deutschmark. Differential national requirements for seigniorage revenue provide a weak case for retaining national monetary independence. From the point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123870
This paper proposes a theory of twin banking-currency crises in which both fundamentals and self-fulfilling beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123877
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124023
In this study we compare the quality and information content of risk neutral densities obtained by various methods. We consider a non-structural method, based on a mixture of log-normal densities, and the semi-nonparametric ones, based on an Hermite approximation of Abken, Madan, Milne, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124117
This paper provides real-time evidence on the frequency, size, duration and economic significance of arbitrage opportunities in the foreign exchange market. We investigate deviations from the covered interest rate parity (CIP) condition using a unique data set for three major capital and foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124143