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This special feature looks at trading activity in the foreign exchange (FX) market. By using information from surveys conducted by FX committees around the world as well as settlement data from CLS Bank, I analyze how global FX market activity was affected by the recent financial crisis. I show...
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On September 3-4, 2009 SUERF and Utrecht University School of Economicsorganized the Colloquium "The Quest for Stability" in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium.
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On September 3-4, 2009 SUERF and Utrecht University School of Economicsorganized the Colloquium "The Quest for Stability" in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium.
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Over-the-counter (OTC) traders cannot pursue the two fundamental objectives of portfolio management, the identification of portfolio market risk and return and its diversification. The result of this major market shortcoming is a complex, systemically risky market disequilibrium. The tradable...
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I identify a global currency skewness risk factor. Currency portfolios that have higher average excess returns co-vary more positively with this risk factor. They suffer losses in bad times for currency investors when high interest rate investment currencies have a greater tendency to depreciate...
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This supplemental appendix extends the results in Mancini, Ranaldo, and Wrampelmeyer (2011), presenting additional analyses and robustness checks. It also describes the cleaning procedure of the EBS data, compares EBS to other datasets, and discusses the robust estimation of the price impact model
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On the last 3 months, there have been some concerns over the weakening of Indonesian Rupiah currency that mostly driven by bearish trend in Indonesia's equity market. Though the explanation of this correlation is known mostly due to foreign capital flow in the equity market (hot money), it...
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Using a novel and comprehensive dataset, we provide the first systematic study of liquidity in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Contrary to common perceptions, we find significant variation in liquidity across exchange rates, substantial costs due to FX illiquidity, and strong commonality in...
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Over the last two decades, a number of financial disasters have occurred due to failure in risk management procedures. If some, as the Asian financial crisis, had a very much more muted global impact (even though they sent shock waves through global financial markets, the main damage were fairly...
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