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This special feature looks at trading activity in the foreign exchange market between the Triennial Surveys conducted in 2010 and 2013 and in the months following. We estimate that the $5.3 trillion per day reported for April 2013 was a peak, with activity falling subsequently by $300 billion to...
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The accurate forecast of the foreign currencies exchange rates at the ultra high frequency electronic trading in the foreign currencies exchange markets is a main topic of our research: 1) the present state of the foreign currencies exchange markets in Asia, Europe and North America; 2) the...
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due to taxation and how emergent properties from the interaction of traders like bubbles and crashes, excess volatility …, excess kurtosis and volatility clustering change. Numerical simulations reveal that under taxation traders abstain from short …-term trading in favour of longer investment horizons. This change in behavior leads to less excess volatility and diminishing …
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investment horizons. This change in behavior leads to less volatility and less mispricings. When the tax rate exceeds a certain …
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The 2004 survey shows a surge in traditional foreign exchange trading. This seems to have been driven by momentum trading and carry trades in a global search for yield on the part of institutional investors and leveraged players as well as by hedging activity
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The 2019 BIS Triennial Central Bank Survey provided new insights about the boost that electronification gave to trading in FX and OTC derivatives markets, and the role of compression and clearing in containing the growth of outstanding derivatives exposures
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The relationship between trading volume and volatility in foreign exchange markets continues to be of much interest …, especially given the higher than expected volatility of returns. Allowing for non-linearities, this paper tests competing … hypotheses on the possible relationship between volatility and trading volume using data for three major currency futures …
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We investigate the pricing of volatility risks in currency markets. First, we show that pricing ability of volatility … risk is concentrated in some of its components. Diffusive volatility dominates jump volatility in pricing carry trade … returns, while jump volatility is important in jointly explaining carry trade and momentum returns. Both short-run and long …
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-wide volatility connectedness episodes, indicating bad states of the world. In contrast, high interest rate currencies perform …I empirically examine the system-wide volatility connectedness risk of currencies as an explanation for the risk … rates. I find that system-wide volatility connectedness risk carries a significant and negative risk premium. That is, low …
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