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Profitability and Stability in International Currency Markets
Bilson, John F. O. - 2021
future spot exchange rates. This result implies that there have been opportunities for speculative profit during the post … existence of opportunities for speculative profit is explored. The question answered in the paper is the following: if there … were no opportunities for speculative profit, would exchange rates have been more stable? The answer is yes. This answer …
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The Carry Trade and Fundamentals : Nothing to Fear But Feer Itself
Jorda, Oscar - 2009
The carry trade is the investment strategy of going long in high-yield target currencies and short in low-yield funding currencies. Recently, this naive trade has seen very high returns for long periods, followed by large crash losses after large depreciations of the target currencies. Based on...
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Free Lunch! Arbitrage Opportunities in the Foreign Exchange Markets
Ito, Takatoshi - 2012
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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Conditional Risk Premia in Currency Markets and Other Asset Classes
Lettau, Martin - 2013
The downside risk CAPM (DR-CAPM) can price the cross section of currency returns. The market-beta differential between high and low interest rate currencies is higher conditional on bad market returns, when the market price of risk is also high, than it is conditional on good market returns....
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Cables, Sharks and Servers : Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market
Eichengreen, Barry - 2016
global turnover of London, the world's largest trading venue, by as much as one-third …
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Global Portfolio Rebalancing and Exchange Rates
Camanho, Nelson - 2018
We examine international equity allocations at the fund level and show how different returns on the foreign and domestic proportion of portfolios determine rebalancing behavior and trigger capital flows. We document the heterogeneity of rebalancing across fund types, its greater intensity under...
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Crash Risk in Currency Markets
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2010
1996 to 2011 period using exchange rate spot, forward, and option data, we obtain a real-time index of world disaster risk …
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Do Professional Currency Managers Beat the Benchmark?
Pojarliev, Momtchil - 2008
We investigate an index of returns on professionally managed currency funds and a subset of returns from 34 individual currency fund managers. Over the period 1990-2006, excess returns earned by currency fund managers have averaged 25 basis points per month. We examine the relationship of these...
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How Well Do Foreign Exchange Markets Function : Might a Tobin Tax Help?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2008
Figures for 1995 estimate trading by dealers in the foreign exchange market at over $1,200 billion per day, most of it with other dealers. Some have linked this volume to concerns of excessive volatility in the market. Tobin's proposal to address this volatility with a small tax on all foreign...
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Global Currency Hedging
Campbell, John Y. - 2007
franc (particularly in the second half of the period) have moved against world equity markets. Thus these currencies should …
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