The Bank of Korea and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) co-hosted a conference on "Asia-Pacific fixed income markets: evolving structure, participation and pricing" on 19-20 November 2018 in Seoul, Korea. The conference marked the completion of the BIS Asian Office's two-year research...

This report seeks to shed light on the characteristics of currency carry trades in Latin America. Partly reflecting the degree of financial market integration and development, as well as the effects of regulation, carry trades in the region have typically been implemented by taking long forward...

Garbade and Silber (1979) demonstrate that an asset will be liquid if it has (1) low price volatility and (2) a large number of public investors who trade it. Although these results match nicely with common notions of liquidity, one key element is missing: liquidity also depends on (3) an asset...

Papers presented at the International Conference on Financial Derivatives, held at Pondicherry University during 17-19 December 2010; organized by Dept. of Commerce, Pondicherry University in association with Multi Commodity Exchange of India, Forward Markets Commission, Govt. of India, and NABARD