Common volatility across Latin American foreign exchange markets

Common Volatility across Latin American Foreign Exchange Markets Isabel

This paper uses high frequency exchange rate data for a group of twelve Latin American countries to analyze volatility comovements. Particular interest is posed on understanding the existence of a common volatility process during the 1994–2005 period. The analysis relies on bivariate common factor models. We test for second-order common features using the common ARCH-feature methodology develop...

Volatility Scaling in Foreign Exchange Markets

When distributions are non-Gaussian or display linear dependence it may not be appropriate to annualise the risk coefficient determined by the linear rescaling of the variance from other time intervals. This paper investigates the scaling relationships for daily spot foreign currency returns: the Deutsche markU.S. dollar (DMK/USD), the Swiss franc-USD (SWF/USD), the Japanese yen-USD (JPY/USD), ...

Common Volatility in the Foreign Exchange Market

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, ...

Do foreign exchange risk premiums relate to the volatility in the foreign exchange and equity markets?

Empirical tests are performed to examine whether foreign exchange excess returns for the British pound, Canadian dollar, Deutsche mark, and Japanese yen are related to volatility in the currency market and volatility in the stock markets. Our results indicate that volatility (measured by standard deviation and variance) from currency markets is signi® cant in explaining the excess returns, sugg...

The Influence of Structural Changes in Volatility on Shock Transmission and Volatility Spillover among Iranian Gold and Foreign Exchange Markets