a special emphasis on the first year of the euro. A contribution is made as to how to measure these roles, both for … identification of changes in the role of the euro during 1999 compared to the aggregate of euro predecessor currencies, net of intra … -euro area assets/liabilities, before stage 3 of EMU. A number of key factors determining the currency distribution of …

The aim of this paper is to discuss excess comovements for the Euro/US dollar and British pound/US dollar exchange …

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 …

general shape of the implied volatility function of the corresponding currency pair. Overall, we conclude that there is a …