The effect of public news announcements on dealers' quoting activity is analyzed with the multivariate double autoregressive conditional Poisson model. Quoting activity is measured by the frequency of price revisions in the Euro/Dollar foreign exchange market. The multivariate double...

This paper analyzes the effect of nine categories of news announcements on the quoting activity of individual foreign exchange (FX) dealers on the Euro/Dollar exchange rate from May to October 2001. We use the double autoregressive conditional Poisson model (DACP), which is designed for time...

We investigate the existence of chart patterns in the Euro/Dollar intra-daily foreign exchange market. We use two identification methods of the different chart patterns: one built on close prices only, and one based on low and high prices. We look for twelve types of chart patterns and we study...

We design and implement optimal foreign exchange portfolio allocations. An optimal allocation maximizes the expected return sub ject to a Value-at-Risk (VaR) constraint. Based on intradaily data, the optimization procedure is carried out at regular time intervals. For the estimation of the...

This paper deals with the impact of nine categories of scheduled and unscheduled news announcements on the Euro/Dollar return volatility. We highlight and analyze the pre-announcement, contemporaneous and postannouncement reactions. Using high-frequency intraday data and within the framework of...

This paper analyses the effect of nine categories of news announcements on the quoting activity of individual FX dealers on the Euro/Dollar exchange rate from May to October 2001. We use the Double Autoregressive Conditional Poisson model (DACP), which is designed for time series of count data,...

Purpose Forecasting the future movement of yield curves contains valuable information for both academic and practical issues such as bonding pricing, portfolio management, and government policies. The purpose of this paper is to develop a dynamic factor approach that can provide more precise and...

Recent empirical papers report a declining trend in the cumulative abnormal return (CAR)of acquirers during an M&A program. Does this necessarily imply that acquiring CEOs areinfected by hubris and are not learning from previous mistakes? We first confirm theexistence of this declining trend on...

Does legal insider trading contribute to market efficiency? Using the refinementproposed by the recent microstructure literature, we analyze the information contentof legal insider trading. Our sample encompasses 2,110 different companies subject to59,244 aggregated daily insider trades over the...