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Option prices provide valuable information on market expectations. This paper attempts to extract market expectations, as conveyed by an implied risk-neutral probability distribution, from option prices for the dollar-euro exchange rate. Returns'' volatilities are inferred from observed and...
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countries. Proxies are focused on both spot and derivative transactions that alter the central bank's foreign currency position …
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whether FX futures market will amplify the volatility of spot exchange rates, this paper analyzes the impact of establishing … FX futures markets on spot market volatility using data from major emerging market economies. The result shows that FX … futures market is not empirically associated with an increase in spot market volatility; in some cases, it is even associated …
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For about three decades until the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Covered Interest Parity (CIP) appeared to hold quite closely-even as a broad macroeconomic relationship applying to daily or weekly data. Not only have CIP deviations significantly increased since the GFC, but potential...
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This paper examines how exchange rate volatility and Korean banks’ foreign exchange liquidity mismatches interacted …
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The paper models an adjustable peg exchange rate arrangement as a policy rule with an escape clause under which the timing and magnitudes of realignments are the outcomes of policy optimization decisions. Under the assumptions that market participants are rational, risk averse, and fully...
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This paper studies the relative effectiveness of foreign exchange intervention in spot and derivatives markets. We make use of Brazilian data where spot and non-deliverable futures based intervention have been used in tandem for more than a decade. The analysis finds evidence in favor of a...
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The paper documents the use of foreign exchange intervention (FXI) across countries and monetary regimes, with special attention to its use under inflation targeting (IT). We find significant differences between advanced and emerging market economies, with the former group conducting FXI...
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, institutional, political and social underpinnings to uncover the 'missing' determinants of exchange rate volatility over time and … volatility, especially in emerging market economies. After controlling for standard macroeconomic factors, we find that the 'soft … volatility across countries …
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This paper examines how exchange rate volatility and Korean banks' foreign exchange liquidity mismatches interacted …
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