GROWING BODY OF theoretical literature, known as the study of securities market microstructure, deals with the behavior of participants in securities markets and with the effects of information and institutional rules on the economic performance of those markets. These institutional factors may arise from technology, tradition or regulation. Microstructure and its impact are important, because ...

The paper examines the economic role of modelling information on the decision problem of an exporting firm under exchange rate risk and hedging. Information is described in terms of market transparency, i.e., a publicly observable signal conveys more information about the random foreign exchange rate. We analyze the interaction between market transparency and the ex ante expected utility of the...

The adverse effect of currency volatility on international trade has prompted the inception of the European Monetary System (EMS) and other measures of international policy coordination aimed at reducing intracurrency variability. Until "Black Wednesday" in September 1992 the EMS had some sucess in this objective, but following pressure on the Italian Lira, other ERM currencies (viz. Sterling, ...

We construct multi-currency models with stochastic volatility and correlated stochastic interest rates with a full matrix of correlations. We first deal with a foreign exchange (FX) model of Heston-type, in which the domestic and foreign interest rates are generated by the short-rate process of Hull-White [HW96]. We then extend the framework by modeling the interest rate by a stochastic volatil...

Many systems studied in the biological, physical, and social sciences are composed of multiple interacting components. Often the number of components and interactions is so large that attaining an understanding of the system necessitates some form of simplification. A common representation that captures the key connection patterns is a network in which the nodes correspond to system components ...

the successful key of trading in the forex market is the selection of correct exchange in proper time based on an exact prediction of future exchange rate. foreign exchange rates are affected by many correlated economic, political and even psychological factors. therefore, in order to achieve a profitable trade these factors should be considered. the application of intelligent techniques for fo...

We investigate intra-day foreign exchange (FX) time series using the inverse statistic analysis developed in [1,2]. Specifically, we study the time-averaged distributions of waiting times needed to obtain a certain increase (decrease) ρ in the price of an investment. The analysis is performed for the Deutsch Mark (DM) against the $US for the full year of 1998, but similar results are obtained f...

GROWING BODY OF theoretical literature, known as the study of securities market microstructure, deals with the behavior of participants in securities markets and with the effects of information and institutional rules on the economic performance of those markets. These institutional factors may arise from technology, tradition or regulation. Microstructure and its impact are important, because ...