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Using the "firm" quotes obtained from the tick-by-tick EBS (electronic broking system that is a major trading platform for foreign exchanges) data, it is found that risk-free arbitrage opportunities--free lunch--do occur in the foreign exchange markets, but it typically last only a few seconds....
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Using tick-by-tick data of the dollar-yen and euro-dollar exchange rates recorded in the actual transaction platform, a …
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We study how the financial conditions in the Center Economies [the U.S., Japan, and the Euro area] impact other …, and currency compositions of debt are significant factors. More specifically, having a higher weight on the dollar (or the … euro) makes the response of a financial variable such as the REER and exchange market pressure in the PHs more sensitive to …
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article, we provide evidence suggesting a recent rise in the use of the dollar, and fall of the use in the euro, with similar …
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Foreign exchange reserve accumulation has risen dramatically in recent years. The introduction of the euro, greater … increased the pressure on central banks to diversify away from the US dollar. A major portfolio shift would significantly affect … exchange rates and the status of the dollar as the dominant international currency. We develop a dynamic mean …
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Market impacts of Japanese macroeconomic announcements within minutes on the dollar/yen foreign exchange are analyzed …
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The purpose of this paper is to characterize the changes in risk premium in the 1980s. A five-variable vector autoregressive model (VAR) is constructed to calculate a risk premium series in the foreign exchange market. The risk premium series is volatile and time-varying. The hypothesis of no...
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Volatility permeates modern financial theories and decision making processes. As such, accurate measures and good forecasts of future volatility are critical for the implementation and evaluation of asset pricing theories. In response to this, a voluminous literature has emerged for modeling the...
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This paper examines the efficiency of the forward yen/dollar market using micro survey data. We first argue that the …
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dollars. Expectations of yen appreciation against the dollar have been (1) consistently large, (2) variable, and (3) greater …Three surveys of exchange rate expectations allow us to measure directly the expected rates of return on yen versus … than the forward premium, implying that investors were willing to accept a lower expected return on dollar assets. At short …
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