In a managed floating exchange rate regime, one of the most important issues is the degree to which the monetary authorities intervene in the foreign exchange market.  The appropriate level of intervention in the foreign exchange market can be discussed in a framework which emphasizes the trade-off between changes in the country’s level of international reserves and minimizes the country’s real...

the main purpose of this paper is theoretically to design the optimal intervention in the foreign exchange market in iran, which has not been investigated by previous studies. the economic fundamentals are strongly affected by the optimal foreign exchange intervention, the consistency of foreign exchange intervention with other policies and political authorities' beliefs about the interven...

Microstructure models of foreign exchange markets emphasize two different channels of pressure in pricing dynamics; these are inventory and asymmetric information effects. Past empirical studies for foreign exchange markets have found evidence supporting the existence of both effects in the Dollar/DM market. This paper tests for the presence of within sample variation in the intensity of these ...

This study tests weak and semi-strong form efficiency of the foreign exchange market in Sri Lanka during the recent float using six bilateral exchange rates. Weak-form efficiency is examined using unit root tests while semi-strong form efficiency is tested using co-integration, Granger causality tests and variance decomposition analysis. Results indicate that the Sri Lankan foreign exchange mar...

Numerous academic studies examine equity risk premium predictability based on various macroeconomic variables and price and volume based variables from stock market. In this article, we extend the frontier of the set of predictors from macroeconomic variables and stock market variables to foreign exchange market variables due to various reasons. Firstly, foreign exchange market reflects various...

This paper develops a model of the black market for foreign exchange in which black market currency is demanded and supplied by tirms engaged in smuggling. It is demonstrated that quotas or foreign exchange rationing are not necessary to induce the coexistence of legal and black foreign exchange markets. Variants of the model analyze the implications of capital flight, unbalanced trade, quotas,...

The foreign exchange market is one of the biggest markets in the global financial capital market. With current trends toward financial capital globalization, it is becoming more important to understand the hedge and arbitrage of foreign exchange markets. Thus, this study implements association rules as a data mining approach to explore the associations among 19 different pairs of foreign exchan...

In a foreign currency exchange market, there are highdensity data streams. The present approaches for visualization of this type of data cannot show us a figure with targeted both local details and global trend information. In this paper, on the basis of features and attributes of foreign currency exchange trading streams, we discuss and compare multiple approaches including interactive zooming...

â â â â â â â â â â â  â  abstract â  the foreign exchange market (fx market) accounts for 40% of the total volume of the world’s e-commerce by its own. based on statistics, sometimes up to 90 per cent of the traders lose their total capital in this market just within six months to one year and leave this market. the probability of loss in the fx market can be estimated by probability theory....

The foreign exchange market is one of the biggest markets in the global financial capital market. With current trends toward financial capital globalization, it is becoming more important to understand the co-movement of foreign exchange. Investors always want to get all kinds of messages to make decisions about investing. Moreover, they always look forward to making a profit. This study invest...