This Paper studies the formation of opening prices for German and French stocks, simultaneously traded in Frankfurt and Paris. We analyse theoretically the case where investors and traders based in the same country as the firm have better information on its value than foreign traders. Our model...

We study the effects of sterilized intervention operations executed on behalf of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) using tick-by-tick transaction data between 1985-95.We extend preliminary analysis conducted by Fischer and Zurlinden (1999) by matching these data with intra-day indicative exchange...

Cointegration analysis is used to investigate the short and long run dynamics of therelationship between the export prices of the EU wheat and of other major exporters inthe world wheat market. The aim of this study is to determine whether long runrelationships existed between EU prices and its...