During the European exchange market turmoil in 1992-93 it was evident that speculative attacks tended to spread across currencies. Using a twocountry version of the model developed by Flood and Garber (1984) we show how a speculative attack against one currency may accelerate the warranted...

The paper studies trading strategies for currency exchange market which do not employ any distribution assumptions on exchange rate evolution. It is found that there are strategies that ensure some speculative opportunities for currency exchange under condition of currency corridor or soft peg

We develop a framework for studying the choice of exchange rate regime in an open economy where the local currency is vulnerable to speculative attacks. The optimal regime is determined by a policymaker who trades off the loss from nominal exchange rate uncertainty, against the cost of...

Kang et al. (2020) find cross-sectional evidence that short- and long-term variation of position changes are driven by liquidity demand of noncommercials and hedging demands of commercials in commodity futures markets. In this paper, we find the commercials' hedging demands drive both short-term...