Online appendices for FX Liquidity and Market Metrics ("https://ssrn.com/abstract=2912976" https://ssrn.com/abstract=2912976 or DOI:10.2139/ssrn.2912976). Appendix 1 contains expanded tables and figures. Appendix 2 describes reconciliation and comparison of the CLS settlement data with other...

The report presents new insights and data on stablecoins, an innovative and rapidly evolving sector of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Stablecoins, as the name suggests, are cryptocurrencies that are designed to minimize price volatility. The findings in this research study are based on the...

We discuss the idea of a purely algorithmic universal world iCurrency set forth in: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=2542541" https://ssrn.com/abstract=2542541 and expanded in: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3059330" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3059330 in light of recent developments, including Libra. Is...

This working paper is written by Cho-Hoi Hui (Hong Kong Monetary Authority), Paul Luk (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research), Giorgio Valente (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research) and Gabriel Wu (Hong Kong Monetary Authority).We study the joint...

Frequent, yet uninformed, fund flows in Chilean pension plans generate substantial trading in currency markets due to the high allocation to international securities. These non-fundamental flows have a significant impact on the Chilean peso, which is estimated to have a relatively low price...

This research paper has analyzed the spillover of BSE stock returns by the regime ofmacroeconomic variables. The study selected sample macroeconomic indicators such as FII, IFT,M3, Production Index and WPI from the period of 1-01-2010 to 31.12.2019 from the RBI websiteand www.bseindia.com. The...

Recommendations of financial advisory firms have become increasingly influential in the allocation of pension fund assets in many countries. Such recommendations often elicit large, coordinated portfolio readjustments involving a reallocation of pension fund holdings across asset classes. Using...

Blockchain technology has opened up the possibility of digital currency, smart contracts and much more applications including the launch of central bank digital currencies (CBDC). However, literature about the effect of CBDC with the presence of cryptocurrency for an emerging market economy...

How large should open market operations be to stabilize exchange rates in foreign exchange interventions? In this paper, we leverage the mechanical rebalancings of the largest local-currency government bonds index for emerging countries (GBI-EM Global Diversified) to provide a valid...

We study investor trading behaviour and yield patterns in the UK government bond market during the recent Covid crisis. We show that the yield spike in mid-March 2020 was accompanied by heavy selling of gilts by UK-based insurance companies and pension funds (ICPFs), which we argue was an...