This study investigates the European foreign exchange markets efficiency from both the within- and across-country perspectives and subsequently compared them across several recent crises. The European foreign exchange markets are generally efficient over the whole sample period. From the...

Rolling spot forex is a growing business. The key problem is whether it could be classified as a financial instrument or could be classified as gambling contract. Each legal system has different approach. Nevertheless the legal position of rolling spot forex is unclear. This submission is...

In 1971, after the demise of the international monetary system, the so-called Bretton Woods system that ensured semi-fixed exchange rates thanks to capital controls, James Tobin conceived his now famous “Tobin tax”. Since then, some supporters of his original proposal have introduced some...

Much progress has been made in reducing settlement risk in foreign exchange markets, particularly through use of CLS Bank. However, the remaining exposures are sometimes still significantly large and not always well managed, creating the potential for systemic risk. To address this problem, it...

I find evidence that while a political event which has implications for Central Bank Autonomy (CBA event) induces currency depreciation that is accompanied by an increase in currency inventory risk, a political event that can be interpreted as evidence of partisanship (partisanship event)...

Juxtaposition of relative importance of risk aversion and information risk for maintenance of bid-ask spreads that always are positive reveal primacy of information risk over dealer risk aversion. While empirical results provide evidence for pricing of dealer risk aversion in context of a lower...

The role of stock and currency market information in a forward-looking Taylor rule is analysed for monthly data from 13 OECD countries and the U.S. during the years 1988-2012. Based on a simple set of partial equilibrium conditions we fi nd that the stock market information in the form of...

Using transaction-level tick-by-tick data of same- and next-day settlement of the Russian Ruble versus the US Dollar exchange rate (RUB/USD) traded on the Moscow Exchange Market during the period 2005-2013, we analyze the impact of trading hours extensions on volatility. During the sample...

This paper examines the effects of negative interest rate policies (NIRP) on foreign exchange and equity markets of eight European countries and Japan. NIRP announcement effects on currency depreciation are shown to be transitory. In contrast, on the day of NIRP implementation, both currency and...

This paper investigates how different monetary policy designs alter the effect of carry trades on a host small open economy. Capital inflows are expansionary, leading the central bank to raise the interest rate, increasing carry trades' returns, and generating further capital inflows (carry...