The aim of this paper is to model the dynamic evolution of daily log-price ranges for two foreign exchange rates, SF/USD and USD/GBP. Following Chou (2001),we adopt the CARR model, which is identical to the ACD model of Engle & Russell (1998). Log-price ranges are highly efficient measures of...

We study the motivations of interbank market traders around the 2007-09 subprime crisis with a new statistic that reveals the underlying urgency to borrow overnight funds, which we call Trading Urgency. We find that Trading Urgency leads sovereign CDS spreads and reacts to non-standard central...

We study the behavior of the interbank market before, during and after the 2008 financial crisis. Leveraging recent advances in network analysis, we study two network structures, a correlation network based on publicly traded bank returns, and a physical network based on interbank lending...