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strategies. When we do so, some questions are resolved: negative skewness is purged, and market volatility (VIX) is uncorrelated …
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We investigate the predictive information content in foreign exchange volatility risk premia for exchange rate returns …. The volatility risk premium is the difference between realized volatility and a model-free measure of expected volatility … that is derived from currency options, and reflects the cost of insurance against volatility ‡fluctuations in the …
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remarkably little effect on the volatility of exchange rates, the in-sample explanatory power of macro fundamentals and the …
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forward premia on monthly exchange rate returns in a framework that allows for volatility timing. We implement Bayesian … methods for estimation and ranking of a set of empirical exchange rate models, and construct combined forecasts based on … stochastic volatility innovations; and (ii) strategies based on combined forecasts yield large economic gains over the random …
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This paper examines the exchange rate predictability stemming from the equilibrium model of international financial adjustment developed by Gourinchas and Rey (2007). Using predictive variables that measure cyclical external imbalances for country pairs, we assess the ability of this model to...
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large currency attacks and introducing non-fundamental volatility into exchange rates and policy decisions. We show that the …
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's stochastic volatility model. We apply those models on FF/DM OTC exchange rate options for various dates ranging between May 1996 …
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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...
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movements. The redefinition of the MSCI world equity index in December 2000 provides an ideal natural experiment identifying …
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event study analysis we find that intervention has important short-run effects on exchange ate returns and volatility. In …
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