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The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-09 confirmed the vital importance of advancing our understanding of macrofinancial linkages, the two-way interactions between the real economy and the financial sector. The crisis was a bitter reminder of how sharp fluctuations in asset prices, credit and...
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allow explaining and replicating most stylized facts of foreign exchange markets, namely (i) the excess volatility of the … exchange rate with respect to its fundamentals, (ii) booms, busts and precarious equilibria, (iii) clusters of volatility, (iv …
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allow explaining and replicating most stylized facts of foreign exchange markets, namely (i) the excess volatility of the … exchange rate with respect to its fundamentals, (ii) booms, busts and precarious equilibria, (iii) clusters of volatility, (iv …
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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 significant excess returns. The covariation with volatility carry returns …
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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 on average with an upward sloping and concave term structure. Consistent …
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returns and volatility of ETF and index. The equity ETF, which tracks NASDAQ (NDX 100), is chosen for the study, and the data …
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In our model, cross-currency basis, which captures the deviations from covered interest rate parity (CIP), reflects the relative value of the scarcer currency (US dollar) as collateral in funding constraints. Our empirical evidence shows that measures of dollar shortage derived from ECB tenders,...
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When analysing the volatility related to high frequency financial data, mostly non-parametric approaches based on … stochastic volatility. Estimation of the model delivers measures of daily variation outperforming their non …
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This paper studies dynamics of endogenous business cycles and exchange rate volatility in a small open economy. Without … exhibit a higher volatility than other prices. The numerical analysis shows examples which confirm the typical empirically … observed high volatility of nominal exchange rates compared with that of real/domestic variables. …
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This paper studies dynamics of endogenous business cycles and exchange rate volatility in a small open economy. Without … exhibit a higher volatility than other prices. The numerical analysis shows examples which confirm the typical empirically … observed high volatility of nominal exchange rates compared with that of real/domestic variables …
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