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The accuracy of trade classification systems on the foreign exchange market : evidence from the RUB USD market
Frömmel, Michael; D'Hoore, Dick; Lampaert, Kevin - In: Finance research letters 42 (2021), pp. 1-7
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Analysis of the intraday effects of economic releases on the currency market
Rezania, Omid; Rachev, Svetlozar T.; Sun, Edward; … - 2010
Using four years of second-by-second executed trade data, we study the intraday effects of a representative group of scheduled economic releases on three exchange rates: EUR/$, JPY/$ and GBP/$. Using wavelets to analyze volatility behavior, we empirically show that intraday volatility clusters...
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Systematic consumption risk in currency returns
Hoffmann, Mathias; Suter, Rahel - 2013
We sort currencies by countries' consumption growth over the past four quarters. Currency portfolios of countries experiencing consumption booms have higher Sharpe ratios than those of countries going through a consumption-based recession. A carry strategy that goes short in countries that are...
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Customer order flow, information and liquidity on the Hungarian foreign exchange market
Gereben, Áron; Gyomai, György; Kiss M., Nobert - 2006
microstructure approach to exchange rates. We attempt to explore what the data tells us about the role of customer order flow in the … market for Hungarian forint, using the standard analytical framework of the FX microstructure literature. Our results confirm … microstructure, the traditional portfolio-balance channel of exchange rate determination is also in place. …
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Large' vs. 'small' players: a closer look at the dynamics of speculative attacks
Bjønnes, Geir H.; Holden, Steinar; Rime, Dagfinn; … - 2009
What is the role of large players" like hedge funds and other highly leveraged institutions in speculative attacks? In recent theoretical work, large players may induce an attack by an early move, providing information to smaller agents. In contrast, many observers argue that large players are...
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The Cross-Section of Currency Volatility Premia
Della Corte, Pasquale - 2019
We identify a global risk factor in the cross-section of implied volatility returns in currency markets. A zero-cost strategy that buys forward volatility agreements with downward sloping implied volatility curves and sells those with upward slopes - volatility carry strategy - generates...
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Systematic Currency Volatility Risk Premia
Bang Nielsen, Andreas - 2018
I show that volatility risk of the dollar factor --- an equally weighted basket of developed U.S. dollar exchange rates --- carries a significant risk premium and that it is priced in the cross-section of currency volatility excess returns. The dollar factor volatility risk premium is negative...
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Zero-coupon interest rates : evaluating three alternative datasets
Díaz Pérez, Antonio; Jareño, Francisco; Navarro … - 2018
The zero-coupon yield curve is a common input for most financial purposes. The authors consider three popular yield curve datasets, and explore the extent to which the decision as to what dataset to use for an application may have implications on the results. The paper illustrates why such...
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Currency futures' risk premia and risk factors
Bernoth, Kerstin; Hagen, Jürgen von; Vries, Casper G. de - 2020
The use of futures exchange contracts instead of forwards completes the maturity spectrum of the correlation between the spot yield and the premium. We find that the forward premium puzzle (FFP) depends significantly on the maturity horizon of the futures contract and the choice of sampling...
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The Term Structure of Currency Futures' Risk Premia
Bernoth, Kerstin; Hagen, Jürgen von; de Vries, Casper - 2021
The use of futures exchange contracts instead of forwards completes the maturityspectrum of the correlation between the spot yield and the premium. We find that theforward premium puzzle (FPP) depends significantly on the maturity horizon of thefutures contract and the choice of the sampling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311513