We analyse the volatility structure of Asian currencies against the U.S. dollar (USD) for the Thai Baht THB, the … volatility dynamics have changed in a K-state switching AR(1)-GARCH(1,1) model in the last decade 1995-2008 covering the Asian … crisis. We estimate the model of Haas et al. (2003) with MCMC and we find that for the four currencies the volatility …

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. …