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The Forward Exchange Market, Speculation, and Exchange Market Intervention
Eaton, Jonathan; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2021
This paper develops a stochastic equilibrium model of an open economy incorporating speculation in the forward exchange … market. The model is used to examine two issues. The first is the role of speculation in stabilizing the economy against … stochastic disturbances. Much risk averse speculation stabilizes domestic income against disturbances in the domestic bond market …
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Uninformative Feedback and Risk Taking : Evidence from Retail Forex Trading
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2016
We document evidence consistent with retail day traders in the Forex market attributing random success to their own skill and, as a consequence, increasing risk taking. Although past performance does not predict future success for these traders, traders increase trade sizes, trade size...
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Do Currency Markets Absorb News Quickly?
Evans, Martin D.D. - 2010
This paper addresses whether macro news arrivals affect currency markets over time. The null from macro exchange-rate theory is that they do not: macro news is impounded in ex-change rates instantaneously. We test this by examining the effects of news on subsequent trades by end-user...
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Real-Time Price Discovery in Stock, Bond and Foreign Exchange Markets
Andersen, Torben G. - 2009
We characterize the response of U.S., German and British stock, bond and foreign exchange markets to real-time U.S. macroeconomic news. Our analysis is based on a unique data set of high-frequency futures returns for each of the markets. We find that news surprises produce conditional mean...
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The Profitability of Currency Speculation
Bilson, John F. O. - 2000
This paper presents the results of a post-sample simulation of a speculative strategy using a portfolio of foreign currency forward contracts.The main new features of the speculative strategy are (a)the use of Kalman filters to update the forecasting equation, (b) the allowance for...
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Rational Speculation and Exchange Rates
Duarte, Margarida; Stockman, Alan C. - 2021
variables. Therefore, the model has the potential to deliver changes in exchange rates, resulting from rational speculation … like asset prices. However, it does not generate a sufficient degree of rational speculation to explain either observed …
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Currency Carry Trades
Berge, Travis J. - 2010
A wave of recent research has studied the predictability of foreign currency returns. A wide variety of forecasting structures have been proposed, including signals such as carry, value, momentum, and the forward curve. Some of these have been explored individually, and others have been used in...
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Carry Trades and Risk
Burnside, A. Craig - 2011
Carry trades, in which an investor borrows a low interest rate currency and lends a high interest rate currency, have been profitable historically. The risk exposure of carry traders might explain their high returns, but conventional models of risk do not work because traditional risk factors,...
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The Term Structure of Currency Carry Trade Risk Premia
Lustig, Hanno N. - 2013
Fixing the investment horizon, the returns to currency carry trades decrease as the maturity of the foreign bonds increases. The local currency term premia, which increase with the maturity, offset the currency risk premia. The time-series predictability of foreign bond returns in dollars...
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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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