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examines how the bid-ask spread and conditional volatility in the yen/dollar foreign exchange market changed around the time of … volatility, the deregulation was associated with a convergence of Japanese quoted spreads toward those of other banks. (2 …) Modeling the persistence in volatility reveals that deregulation lowered conditional volatility …
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"Fixing" in the foreign exchange market is a market practice that determines the bid-ask-mid-point exchange rate at a scheduled time, 10am in Tokyo and 4pm in London. The fixing exchange rate is then applied to the settlement of foreign exchange transactions between banks and retail customers...
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, post-intervention mean reversion in both exchange rate returns and volatility indicate that dealer inventories are affected …
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This paper analyzes and estimates the reaction function of the Japanese monetary authorities in deciding when to intervene in the foreign exchange (forex) markets, using daily Japanese intervention data from April 1, 1991 to December 31, 2002. This paper is the first in estimating the reaction...
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We report findings from a survey of United States foreign exchange traders. Our results indicate that: (i) The share of customer business, versus interbank business, has remained fairly constant; (ii) The channels by which transactions take place have changed, as electronically-brokered...
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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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central banks in the absence of any formal arrangements among their governments to limit exchange rate volatility. The … advocates of the proposals for change have made their assessment of the global costs of exchange rate volatility and (their …
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This paper examines Japanese foreign exchanges interventions from April 1991 to March 2001 based on newly disclosed official data. All the yen-selling (dollar-purchasing) interventions were carried out when the yen/dollar rate was below 125, while all the yen-purchasing (dollar-selling)...
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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 …
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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...
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