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Liquidity in the Forward Exchange Market

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  • Michael J Moore;

    (Queen's University Belfast)

  • Maurice Roche

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There are a number of major anomalies that arise from forward foreign exchange rates. Though the level of the forward rate is an unbiased predictor of the future spot rate, the forward premium is poor predictor of future spot rate changes; speculative profits are so volatile that implausibly large degrees of risk aversion are required to explain them and finally, the forward premium is 'excessively' autoregressive. These conclusions emerge from, inter alia, Macklem (1991), Engel (1992) and Backus, Gregory and Telmer (1993). We construct a Lucas-Fuerst model of a two-country world. This framework provides rigorous foundations for liquidity constraints and premia. In our application, there are two insights. The first is that spot forex purchases require cash-in-advance just like goods in the standard Lucas model. However, forward contracts are not bound by this liquidity constraint. This drives a wedge between the spot and forward forex markets. The other insight is that the forward market is incomplete in that the agents that conduct the spot forex transactions in the goods market have a different information set to asset market traders. The model is then simulated using the techniques that are normally associated with the real business cycle literature. We compare its ability to overcome the 'anomalies' with the standard model. The results give rise to cautious optimism.

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  • Michael J Moore; & Maurice Roche, 1995. "Liquidity in the Forward Exchange Market," Economics Department Working Paper Series n580795, Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - Maynooth.
    • Handle: RePEc:may:mayecw:n580795
    Note: A Technical Appendix (N590795) is available which provides two fully worked out examples of solving nonlinear stochastic first order efficiency conditions using methods of Chrisiano (1990, 1991).
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    1. Peter G. Szilagyi & Jonathan A. Batten, 2006. "Arbitrage, Covered Interest Parity and Long-Term Dependence between the US Dollar and the Yen," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp128, IIIS.
    2. Moore, Michael J. & Roche, Maurice J., 2002. "Less of a puzzle: a new look at the forward forex market," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(2), pages 387-411, December.
    3. Killeen, William P. & Lyons, Richard K. & Moore, Michael J., 2006. "Fixed versus flexible: Lessons from EMS order flow," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 551-579, June.
    4. Batten, Jonathan A. & Szilagyi, Peter G., 2007. "Covered interest parity arbitrage and temporal long-term dependence between the US dollar and the Yen," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 376(C), pages 409-421.
    5. Ledenyov, Dimitri O. & Ledenyov, Viktor O., 2015. "Wave function method to forecast foreign currencies exchange rates at ultra high frequency electronic trading in foreign currencies exchange markets," MPRA Paper 67470, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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