The development of Asian foreign exchange markets has progressed appreciably in recent years. Data from the BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey indicate that the turnover of Asian currencies rose sharply between 2004 and 2007, financial institutions became more important customers, and the...

This paper establishes the link of microstructure and macroeconomic factors with the time-varying conditional correlation of foreign exchange and excess equity returns. By using the proposed DCC model with exogenous variables, capital flows and interest rate differentials are shown to be...

This paper documents the existence of large structural breaks in the unconditional correlations among the British pound, Norwegian krone, Swedish krona, Swiss franc, and euro exchange rates (against the US dollar) during the period 1994-2003. Using the framework of dynamic conditional...

In this paper, I investigate the effects of central bank interventions (CBIs) on the ex post correlation and covariance of exchange rates. Using a multivariate GARCH model with time-varying conditional covariances, we estimate the effects of CBIs on both the variances and covariance between the...

The aim of this study is to look for evidence of amp;#64257;nancial contagion suffered by several countries as a result of the latest Argentine crisis. Attention is focused on a set of countries: Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Three amp;#64257;nancial markets are focused on...

In this paper, we examine if the introduction of the euro impacted the risk exposures, risk premiums and, hence, the cost of equity of the banking industry of 11 Eurozone countries, five non-Eurozone European countries, and three non-European countries. Using a multi-factor asset-pricing model...

Standard foreign exchange (FX) models with goods price stickiness and instantaneous asset market adjustments imply FX overshooting (Dornbusch, 1976), which can explain the forward bias anomaly. Lyons (2001) explained the anomaly via limited participation of FX speculators due to Sharpe ratios...

The volatility information contained in high-frequency exchange rate quotations and in implied volatilities calculated from options prices is compared by estimating ARCH models for hourly and daily DM/$ returns. The results are based on the year of Reuters quotations supplied by Olsen amp;...

We examine the dynamic behavior of Equity Real Estate Investment Trust (EREIT) volatility in a GARCH context 1972-2006 using monthly EREIT returns, and comparing volatility performance for quot;earlyquot; Equity REITs 1972-1992 with that of quot;modernquot; EREITs 1993-2006. Consistent with...

This paper addresses issues in extending the affine class of term structure models to describe the joint dynamics of exchange rates and interest rates. A standard incomplete markets approach is shown to impose many constraints on exchange rate dynamics in affine settings. A canonical...