This paper examines co-movements and volatility spillovers in the returns of the euro, the British pound, the Swiss … franc and the Japanese yen vis-à-vis the US dollar before and after the introduction of the euro. Based on dynamic … significant co-movements and volatility spillovers across the four exchange returns, but their extend is, on average, lower in the …

Bank of Japan (BoJ) and exchange rate volatility. We use official intervention data for the period 1993 - 2000 that were … released only recently by the BoJ and find that interventions of the BoJ increased the volatility of the $/yen exchange rate …

dollar, Japanese yen, and the British pound relative to the U.S. dollar from 1979 to 2008 shows that, through the …

volatility processes. This is called a GSSF-SV model. We show that conventional MCMC algorithms for this type of model are …

scheduled economic releases on three exchange rates: EUR/$, JPY/$ and GBP/$. Using wavelets to analyze volatility behavior, we … empirically show that intraday volatility clusters increase as we approach the time of the releases, and decay exponentially after …. Finally, we propose a wavelet volatility estimator which is not only more efficient than a range estimator that is commonly …