This article uses high-frequency exchange rate data for a group of 13 Latin American countries in order to analyse volatility co-movements. Particular interest is posed on understanding the existence of a common volatility process during the 1995-2008 period. The analysis relies on bivariate...

In this article we examine the sensitivity of the foreign exchange market to central bank intervention. Using a time varying Markov switching model we separate periods of relatively stable market conditions from volatile periods and look at the dynamic of the causality effect under different...

The liquidity crunch and the ensuing financial crisis have unambiguously affected all national economies and global currency exchange rates. In this article we ask whether the cross-currency correlation structure has changed since 2007. Using an extensive set of volatility surfaces implied from...

We confirm that there are changes in the features of the foreign exchange market since the Euro introduction through empirical experiments on five major exchange rate series in the world. We verify the existence of asymmetry in volatility process of Japanese Yen (JPY)/United States Dollar (USD),...

It is well known that the log price relative of floating exchange rates, as well as a variety of other commodities and securities, does not follow a normal distribution but instead tends to be characterized by a heavy-tailed stable Paretian distribution. Specifically, we illustrate this property...

Using daily data of four currencies (Japanese Yen (JPY), Euro (EUR), British Pound (GBP) and Australian Dollar (AUD)) in terms of the US Dollar (USD), and JPY, USD, GBP and AUD in terms of the EUR from January 2004 to February 2008, we examine the lead-lag relationship between the Credit Default...

In this article, we investigate the out-of-sample forecasting ability of a Genetic Program (GP) to approach the dynamic evolution of the yen/US dollar and British pound/US dollar exchange rates, and verify whether the method can beat the random walk model. Later on, we use the predicted values...