Research on foreign exchange market microstructure stresses the importance of order flow, heterogeneity among agents, and private information as crucial determinants of short-run exchange rate dynamics. Microstructure researchers have produced empirically-driven models that fit the data...

This paper examines the price discovery process in a two-tier market, specifically the foreign exchange market. The goal is to identify the sources of private information and to gain insights into the process through which that information influences the market price. Using a transactions...

This paper provides evidence of private information in the interbank foreign exchange market. Our trading data are unique because they include trading-party identities and because they comprehensively include all interbank trading venues. We find that larger banks have more information than...

This paper provides evidence that large dealing banks have more information than small dealing banks. Our data comprise the complete record of interdealer trades, including identities and the direction of the aggressor, at a good-sized bank during one week in 1998. We stratify the banks into...

This paper provides evidence of private information in the interdealer foreign exchange market. In so doing it provides support for the hypothesis that information is an important reason for the strong positive correlation between order flow and returns. It also provides evidence that...