New regulatory data reveal extensive price discrimination against non-financialclients in the FX derivatives market. The client at the 90th percentile pays aneffective spread of 0.5%, while the bottom quarter incur transaction costs of lessthan 0.02%. Consistent with models of search frictions...

India's foreign exchange market has been witnessing extreme volatility trends for the past three years. In this context, foreign exchange derivatives become important tools for market risk management. While the over the counter (OTC) derivatives, forwards, are widely used in the post...

New regulatory data reveal extensive discriminatory pricing in the foreign exchange derivatives market, in which dealer-banks and their non-financial clients trade over-the-counter. After controlling for contract characteristics, dealer fixed effects, and market conditions, we find that the...