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 …

Market impacts of Japanese macroeconomic announcements within minutes on the dollar/yen foreign exchange are analyzed …-term business survey conducted by Bank of Japan), GDP, industrial production (preliminary), PPI, CPI (Tokyo area), the unemployment … components have return impacts also have impacts on deals and volatility. The announcement itself, in addition to the magnitude …

This paper examines the efficiency of the forward yen/dollar market using micro survey data. We first argue that the …

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 …

Intraday movements in the yen/dollar rate are examined over the 1980-86 period using opening and closing quotes in the … and U.S. stock prices suggests that intraday yen/dollar rate movements do contain at least some relevant information …

I explore the behavior of asset prices and the exchange rate in a two-country world. When the large country has bad …

, the Bank of Japan and the ECB is as important as Fed policy in forecasting currency returns against the dollar. In the …

Did adoption of the gold standard exacerbate or diminish macroeconomic volatility? Supporters thought so, critics … absorption in a world of real shocks and nominal stickiness. A simple model shows how a lack of flexibility can be discerned in … the transmission of terms of trade shocks. Evidence on the relationship between real exchange rate volatility and terms of …