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Market analysts and central banks often use the implied volatility of FX options as an indicator of expected exchange … deviate the value of implied volatility from the exchange rate variability expected by the market. These biasing factors are … one month. However, implied volatility provides a biased estimate, and does not encompass the information included in …
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forecasts gain from conditioning on volatility. Empirical results support the view that the relationship of interest might be …
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This paper utilizes a very simple model to study the timing and determinants of speculationagainst a fixed exchange rate regime when investors are heterogeneous because of locationaldifferences. Location matters because resident players may incur smaller costs when takinga short-position, are...
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This paper reviews reassesses the methodology and principal findings of the “Rose effect”, i.e. the trade effects of currency union, looking at both EMU and non-EMU currency unions. The consensus estimate suggests that the euro has already boosted intra-euro area trade by five to ten...
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volatility at the turn of the millennium when Japanese foreign exchange intervention started to remain unsterilized. …
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accelerating growth. Panel estimations reveal a robust negative relationship between exchange rate volatility and growth for …
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This paper analyzes the relation between exchange rate volatility and several macroeconomic variables, namely real per … find that lower exchange rate volatility is associated with higher growth (for relatively less financially developed …
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In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
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relationship between currency futures trading activity and spot volatility. Moreover, in the case of four out of the total of five … currencies discussed in this paper, futures trading activity adds significantly to spot volatility. …
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Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and … that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect …, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price volatility can lead to significant bias in measuring the border …
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