Pricing Currency Risk in Two Interlinked Stock Markets

Trading and Pricing in Upstairs and Downstairs Stock Markets

We provide empirical evidence on the economic benefits of negotiating trades in the upstairs trading room of brokerage firms relative to the downstairs market. Using Helsinki Stock Exchange data, we find that upstairs trades tend to have lower information content and lower price impacts than downstairs trades. This is consistent with the hypotheses that the upstairs market is better at pricing ...

Volatility Pricing in the Stock and Treasury Markets

An asset’s sensitivity to stock market volatility carries a signi…cant risk premium across both equity and …xed income markets. Large-cap and growth stocks have less exposure to volatility risk. Their relatively greater ability to weather volatility surprises, such as those often associated with …nancial crises, accounts for their lower expected returns when compared to small-cap and value stoc...

Uncertain Currency Model and Currency Option Pricing

Liu process is a new tool to deal with the noise process based on uncertainty theory. In this paper, we view the foreign exchange rate as an uncertain process, described by an uncertain differential equation driven by Liu process, and build an uncertain currency model. Then the uncertain currency option processes are discussed. Moreover, European and American currency option pricing formulas ar...

Conditional Risk Premia in Currency Markets and Other Asset Classes

The downside risk CAPM (DR-CAPM) can price the cross section of currency returns. The market-beta differential between high and low interest rate currencies is higher conditional on bad market returns, when the market price of risk is also high, than it is conditional on good market returns. Correctly accounting for this variation is crucial for the empirical performance of the model. The DR-CA...

Dynamic Multibeta Macroeconomic Asset Pricing Model at NAFTA Stock Markets