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Indeterminacy in foreign exchange markets

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  • Pasquini, Michele
  • Serva, Maurizio

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We discuss price variations distributions in foreign exchange markets, characterizing them both in calendar and business time frameworks. The price dynamics is found to be the result of two distinct processes, a multi-variance diffusion and an error process. The presence of the latter, which dominates at short time scales, leads to indeterminacy principle in finance. Furthermore, dynamics does not allow for a scheme based on independent probability distributions, since volatility exhibits a strong correlation even at the shortest time scales.

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  • Pasquini, Michele & Serva, Maurizio, 2000. "Indeterminacy in foreign exchange markets," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 277(1), pages 228-238.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:277:y:2000:i:1:p:228-238
    DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00589-0
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