The paper studies the effect of the market's perceived exchange rate volatility on bid-ask spreads. The anticipated … volatility is extracted from currency options data. An increase in the perceived volatility is found to widen bid-ask spreads … estimate of the effect of the volatility on the spreads. Although the spread-volatility relation implied by the option model of …

world are debt-led and the factors associated with debt-led episodes are similar to the factors behind episodes identified …

different theoretical approaches explaining crises and capital flow volatility …

We study the pattern of volatility of gross issuance in international capital markets since 1980. We find several short …-lived episodes of high volatility. Over the long run, however, volatility has declined, suggesting that international financial …-varying pattern of volatility, focusing in particular on the role of financial centers. Our results suggest that a significant portion …

This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In …

formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates … evidence of divergent behavior in the dynamics of return spillovers vs. volatility spillovers: Return spillovers display a … gently increasing trend but no bursts, whereas volatility spillovers display no trend but clear bursts …

We examine the evidence of contagion during the pre World War I era and the interwar and contrast our findings with the …

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 …

Market participants' forecasts of future exchange rate volatility can be recovered from option contracts on foreign … currencies. Such implicit volatility forecasts for four currencies are used to test rational expectations jointly with the … version of market rationality: the market can correctly forecast the direction of the change in exchange rate volatility. This …