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Exchange Rate Returns Standardized by Realized Volatility are (Nearly) Gaussian
Andersen, Torben G. - 2000
It is well known that high-frequency asset returns are fat-tailed relative to the Gaussian distribution tails are typically reduced but not eliminated when returns are standardized by volatilities estimated from popular models such as GARCH. We consider two major dollar exchange rates, and we...
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Causes of Appreciation and Volatility of the Dollar with Comment by Jacob Frenkel
Branson, William H. - 1985
In 1981 real interest rates in the United States increased spectacularly, and the dollar appreciated in real terms by about 20 percent. Since the end of 1981, long-term real interest rates have remained in the range of 5-10 percent, with nominal long rates above short rates. The dollar...
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Exchange-Rate Unions and the Volatility of the Dollar
Marston, Richard C. - 1980
This study analyzes why formation of an exchange-rate union, such as the newly-established European Monetary System, can be harmful to the interests of some member countries. The framework provided for analyzing behavior in the union is a three-country model which combines an asset market...
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Effects of Japanese Macroeconomic Announcements on the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate : High-Resolution Picture
Hashimoto, Yuko - 2009
components have return impacts also have impacts on deals and volatility. The announcement itself, in addition to the magnitude … of surprise, is found to increase the deals and price volatility in the immediately after the announcement. In addition …, some other items have no return impacts but deals and volatility impacts. These facts are consistent with a view that …
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The Predictive Ability of Several Models of Exchange Rate Volatility
West, Kenneth D. - 1994
We compare the out-of-sample forecasting performance of univariate homoskedastic, GARCH, autoregressive and nonparametric models for conditional variances, using five bilateral weekly exchange rates for the dollar, 1973-1989. For a one week horizon, GARCH models tend to make slightly more...
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Intraday Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate Movements : News or Noise?
Ito, Takatoshi - 1988
Intraday movements in the yen/dollar rate are examined over the 1980-86 period using opening and closing quotes in the New York and Tokyo markets. The results indicate that random-walk behavior is violated about half of the time in various subsamples. However, the economic significance of...
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Volatility Comovement : A Multifrequency Approach
Calvet, Laurent E. - 2004
We implement a multifrequency volatility decomposition of three exchange rates and show that components with similar …) introduced in Calvet and Fisher (2001, 2004). Bivariate MSM is a stochastic volatility model with a closed-form likelihood …
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Tests of Excess Forecast Volatility in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets
Froot, Kenneth A. - 1987
Simple regression tests that have power against the alternatives that. asset prices and expected future asset returns are excessively volatile are developed and performed for the foreign exchange and stock markets. These tests have a number of advantages over alternative, variance hounds...
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On Time-Series Properties of Time-Varying Risk Premium in the Yen/Dollar Exchange Market
Canova, Fabio - 1988
but it was neither constant nor stable over subsamples and that its volatility was considerably reduced after October 1982 …
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The International Price of Remote Work
Brinatti, Agostina; Cavallo, Alberto; Cravino, Javier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...
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