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There is already a substantial literature documenting the fact that low yield currencies typically appreciate during times of global financial stress and behave as safe havens. The main objective of this paper is to find out what the fundamentals of safe haven currencies are. We analyse a large...
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economy. The measure of a currency's global role is based on the size and stage of development of the underlying economy, as … currency. The paper applies the concept to 22 currencies of advanced and emerging economies. The results confirm the well … measure in detail, arguing that in view of financial globalisation, an indicator based on currency shares in the international …
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economy. The measure of a currency’s global role is based on the size and stage of development of the underlying economy, as … currency. The paper applies the concept to 22 currencies of advanced and emerging economies. The results confirm the well … measure in detail, arguing that in view of financial globalisation, an indicator based on currency shares in the international …
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equity investors and speculative money market investors while investors in currency option markets react strongly to expected …
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Focusing on the foreign exchange reaction to macroeconomic announcements, we show that fast trading is positively and significantly correlated with the entropy of the distribution of quoted prices in reaction to news: a larger share of fast trading increases the degree of diversity of quotes in...
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This paper investigates the relation between monetary conditions and the excess returns arising from an investment strategy that consists of borrowing low-interest rate currencies and investing in currencies with high interest rates, so-called "carry trade". The results indicate that carry trade...
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This paper investigates the relation between monetary conditions and the excess returns arising from currency carry … decrease in inter-national risk aversion, which in turn leads to a compression in currency risk premia and higher carry trade …
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At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention. Using minute‐by‐minute trading data for fifteen international stock exchanges, we present three...
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At the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, many soccer matches were played during stock market trading hours, providing us with a natural experiment to analyze fluctuations in investor attention. Using minute‐by‐minute trading data for fifteen international stock exchanges, we present three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110809
Standard economic models hold that exchange rates are influenced by fundamental variables such as relative money supplies, outputs, inflation rates and interest rates. Nonetheless, it has been well documented that such variables little help predict changes in floating exchange rates -- that is,...
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