This paper studies how one currency market affects another currency market in a different time zone, using various contracts of the opening and closing yen-dollar exchange rates traded in Tokyo, London, and New York. We find strong and consistent evidence that the three major currency markets interact significantly. For each of five contracts we examine, Tokyo leads London and New York, London leads New York and Tokyo, and New York leads Tokyo and London. In particular, the causality relationship is much stronger when one market trades right after another. Although our results show violations of market efficiency, these findings cannot be interpreted as the existence of easy arbitrage opportunities among three markets. Instead, these strong causality relationships may be due to some unique characteristics of each of three currency markets, which cannot be observed directly.
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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Finance with number
0512024.
Length: 18 pages Date of creation: 22 Dec 2005 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpfi:0512024
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 18. Journal of the Academy of Finance, Vol. 3, No.2, 2005, 173-187. Contact details of provider: Web page: http://129.3.20.41
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