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If there is no priced risk - including volatility risk - associated with hedging an option, then expected delta hedging errors should be zero. This paper finds that delta hedging errors from writing options on foreign exchange futures are significantly positive and unexplained by standard asset...
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We revisit the risk-return relation using the component GARCH model and international daily MSCI stock market data. In contrast with the previous evidence obtained from weekly and monthly data, daily data show that the relation is positive in almost all markets and often statistically...
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Two recent strands of research have contributed to our understanding of the effects of foreign exchange intervention: 1) the use of high frequency data; 2) the use of event studies to evaluate the effects of intervention. This article surveys recent empirical studies of the effect of foreign...
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We examine the markets for one-month LIBOR futures contracts and options on those futures for a year-end price effect consistent with the previously identified year-end rate increase in one-month LIBOR. The cash market rate increase passes through to derivative prices, which allows the...
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If there is no priced risk - including volatility risk - associated with hedging an option, then expected delta hedging errors should be zero. This paper finds that delta hedging errors of a synthetic at-the-money call option on foreign exchange futures are significantly positive and cannot be...
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Consistent with findings in other markets, implied volatility is a biased predictor of the realized volatility of gold futures. No existing explanation - including a price of volatility risk - can completely explain the bias, but much of this apparent bias can be explained by persistence and...
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This paper extends the genetic programming techniques developed in Neely, Weller and Dittmar (1997) to provide some evidence that information about U.S. foreign exchange intervention can improve technical trading rules' profitability for two of four exchange rates over part of the out-of-sample...
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This paper argues that inferring long-horizon asset-return predictability from the properties of vector autoregressive (VAR) models on relatively short spans of data is potentially unreliable. We illustrate the problems that can arise by re-examining the findings of Bekaert and Hodrick (1992),...
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This paper describes the use of genetic programming to create trading rules based on past exchange rates and interest differentials. In an out-of-sample period, 1986-1996, these rules make significantly positive excess returns for three of four EMS exchange rates. There is evidence that the...
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Using genetic programming techniques to find technical trading rules, we find strong evidence of economically significant out-of-sample excess returns to those rules for each of six exchange rates, over the period 1981-1995. Further, when the dollar/deutschemark rules are allowed to determine...
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