-like demand, that is, speculation sentiment. The leveraged ETFs' primary market is a novel setting that provides observable … proxies for the magnitude and direction of speculative demand shocks and I use it to form the Speculation Sentiment Index …. Using the index, I show that speculation sentiment is contrarian; For example, it is bullish in down markets. I also find …

An event study is used to assess the views of Keynes and Friedman on speculation. Speculative extremes are ranked by … little about the future in either case, suggesting that speculation is more than just random noise and supporting the view …

Explains arbitrage, hedging, and speculation from the standpoint of a participant in the foreign exchange market … different markets; the profit comes from the difference in the buying and selling prices. Hedging and speculation are opposing … strategies for dealing with risk; hedging is a cover, and speculation is an assumption of risk. Authors a …

This paper develops a stochastic equilibrium model of an open economy incorporating speculation in the forward exchange … market. The model is used to examine two issues. The first is the role of speculation in stabilizing the economy against … stochastic disturbances. Much risk averse speculation stabilizes domestic income against disturbances in the domestic bond market …