Hybrid method reveals true currency correlations.
problem Identify currency status in foreign exchange networks.
method Combines DCCC and network deconvolution to filter indirect effects.
result Reflects currency status changes and is more stable.
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Study shows demonetization strengthened Indian currency and stock market.
problem Impact of demonetization on Indian stock market and foreign exchange rate.
method Daily rate of return analysis of foreign exchange rate and Nifty 50 index, use of dummy variable for demonetization period.
result Demonetization led to an upward trend in Indian stock market and strengthened the Indian currency (decreased foreign exchange rate).
The currency carry trade is the investment strategy that involves selling low interest rate currencies in order to purchase higher interest rate currencies, thus profiting from the interest rate differentials. This is a well known financial puzzle to explain, since assuming foreign exchange risk is uninhibited and the …
There are many studies dealing with the analysis of similarity among currencies in foreign exchange market by using network analysis approach. In those studies, each currency is represented by a univariate time series of exchange rate return. This is the standard practice to analyze the underlying information in the fo…
Model shows triangular arbitrage key to cross-currency correlations in forex markets.
problem Understanding cross-currency correlations in forex markets.
method Agent-based model of market interactions.
result Triangular arbitrage is primary driver of cross-currency correlations.
Machine learning models predict EUR/USD currency direction with 58.52% accuracy.
problem Predicting the directional movement of EUR/USD in the Foreign Exchange market.
method Comparative analysis of machine learning models, including decorrelated and non-decorrelated feature sets, and meta-estimators.
result 58.52% accuracy for one-day ahead forecasts.
FX Modelling in Collateralized Markets: foreign measures, basis curves, and pricing formulaeq-fin.PR
We present a general derivation of the arbitrage-free pricing framework for multiple-currency collateralized products. We include the impact on option pricing of the policy adopted to fund in foreign currency, so that we are able to price contracts with cash flows and/or collateral accounts expressed in foreign currenc…
Model estimates foreign exchange reserve compositions of undisclosed central banks.
problem Limited information on central bank reserve compositions hinders analysis.
method Hidden Markov Model relating portfolio valuation to exchange rates.
result China's reserve composition likely matches global average, while Singapore holds fewer US dollars.
Develops optimal trading strategy for illiquid currency pairs.
problem Maximizes revenues for a broker liquidating an illiquid currency pair.
method Uses a currency triplet strategy, considering model ambiguity, and employs simulations.
result Mean P&L increases and standard deviation decreases as ambiguity aversion increases.
This work studies the valuation of currency options in markets suffering from a financial crisis. We consider a European option where the underlying asset is a foreign currency. We assume that the value of the underlying asset is a stochastic process that follows a modified Black-Scholes model with an augmented stochas…
Time-scale dependence of correlations among foreign currenciescond-mat.stat-mech
For the purpose of elucidating the correlation among currencies, we analyze daily and high-resolution data of foreign exchange rates. There is strong correlation for pairs of currencies of geographically near countries. We show that there is a time delay of order less than a minute between two currency markets having a…
Scaling Analysis on Indian Foreign Exchange Marketphysics.soc-ph
In this paper we investigate the scaling behavior of the average daily exchange rate returns of the Indian Rupee against four foreign currencies namely US Dollar, Euro, Great Britain Pound and Japanese Yen. Average daily exchange rate return of the Indian Rupee against US Dollar is found to exhibit a persistent scaling…
We consider an insurance entity endowed with an initial capital and a surplus process modelled as a Brownian motion with drift. It is assumed that the company seeks to maximise the cumulated value of expected discounted dividends, which are declared or paid in a foreign currency. The currency fluctuation is modelled as…
It is well known that traded foreign exchange forwards and cross currency swaps (CCS) cannot be priced applying overnight cash and carry arguments as they imply absence of funding advantage of one currency to the other. This paper proposes a heuristic present value concept for multi-currency pricing and hedging which a…
Optimal dividend strategy for insurance company in foreign currency.
problem Maximizing dividends paid in a foreign currency until ruin.
method Spectrally negative Lévy process, exponentially Lévy exchange rate, Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equation.
result Single dividend barrier strategy is optimal.
Currency carry trade is the investment strategy that involves selling low interest rate currencies in order to purchase higher interest rate currencies, thus profiting from the interest rate differentials. This is a well known financial puzzle to explain, since assuming foreign exchange risk is uninhibited and the mark…
Correlation Networks Among Currenciesphysics.soc-ph
By analyzing the foreign exchange market data of various currencies, we derive a hierarchical taxonomy of currencies constructing minimal-spanning trees. Clustered structure of the currencies and the key currency in each cluster are found. The clusters match nicely with the geographical regions of corresponding countri…
We analyze structure of the world foreign currency exchange (FX) market viewed as a network of interacting currencies. We analyze daily time series of FX data for a set of 63 currencies, including gold, silver and platinum. We group together all the exchange rates with a common base currency and study each group separa…
Graph learning improves FXRP and FXSA with significant statistical arbitrage gains.
problem Improving FXRP and FXSA with complex multi-currency and interest rate relationships.
method Two-step graph learning approach: first, edge-level regression on spatiotemporal graph; second, stochastic optimization with constraints and risk-adjusted return maximization.
result Graph-learning method achieves higher information and Sortino ratios than benchmarks.
We investigate topology and temporal evolution of the foreign currency exchange market viewed from a weighted network perspective. Based on exchange rates for a set of 46 currencies (including precious metals), we construct different representations of the FX network depending on a choice of the base currency. Our resu…
Paper uses machine learning to forecast significant currency exchange rate fluctuations.
problem Forecasting significant daily returns in foreign exchange markets.
method Applying nine modern machine learning algorithms to data on four major currency pairs over 10 years, focusing on outlier detection methods.
result Outlier detection methods significantly outperform traditional techniques, with PKDE method producing the best results.
Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on a reference entity may be traded in multiple currencies, in that protection upon default may be offered either in the domestic currency where the entity resides, or in a more liquid and global foreign currency. In this situation currency fluctuations clearly introduce a source of risk on C…
Correlation matrices of foreign exchange rate time series are investigated for 60 world currencies. Minimal Spanning Tree (MST) graphs for the gold, silver and platinum are presented. Inverse power like scaling is discussed for these graphs as well as for four distinct currency groups (major, liquid, less liquid and no…
Study optimal investment strategies for an insurer in two currency markets.
problem Maximizing expected exponential utility of terminal wealth for an insurer in two currency markets.
method Dynamic programming method applied to solve Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations.
result Optimal investment strategies and value functions are derived.
Study proposes a method to construct copulas using corrected Hermite polynomial expansion for estimating foreign exchange volatility.
problem Estimating cross foreign exchange volatility with complex correlation structures.
method Applying corrections to the finite sum of multivariate Hermite polynomial expansions to construct copulas.
result The proposed copula method accurately reproduces the volatility smile of cross currency pairs.
Emerging economies use countercyclical policies to manage crises and dominant currencies.
problem Managing economic crises and fluctuations in dominant currencies like USD and EUR.
method Theoretical analysis, case studies, econometric modeling.
result Emerging economies can stabilize growth with countercyclical monetary policies.
This paper investigates arbitrage chains involving four currencies and four foreign exchange trader-arbitrageurs. In contrast with the three-currency case, we find that arbitrage operations when four currencies are present may appear periodic in nature, and not involve smooth convergence to a "balanced" ensemble of exc…
In a system containing a large number of interacting stochastic processes, there will typically be many non-zero correlation coefficients. This makes it difficult to either visualize the system's inter-dependencies, or identify its dominant elements. Such a situation arises in Foreign Exchange (FX) which is the world's…
The team predicts foreign exchange rates using clustering and attention models.
problem Complexity and unexpected events in foreign exchange markets.
method Clustering and attention models applied to historical data.
result Improved event-driven price prediction for oversold scenarios.
Frequency analysis of tick quotes on the foreign exchange market and agent-based modeling: A spectral distance approachphysics.data-an
High-frequency financial data of the foreign exchange market (EUR/CHF, EUR/GBP, EUR/JPY, EUR/NOK, EUR/SEK, EUR/USD, NZD/USD, USD/CAD, USD/CHF, USD/JPY, USD/NOK, and USD/SEK) are analyzed by utilizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two normalized spectrograms of the tick frequency and the generalized Jensen-Sha…
We investigate quotation and transaction activities in the foreign exchange market for every week during the period of June 2007 to December 2010. A scaling relationship between the mean values of number of quotations (or number of transactions) for various currency pairs and the corresponding standard deviations holds…
In this paper, we establish a market model for the term structure of forward inflation rates based on the risk-neutral dynamics of nominal and real zero-coupon bonds. Under the market model, we can price inflation caplets as well as inflation swaptions with a formula similar to the Black's formula, thus justify the cur…
This study investigates that a characteristic time scale on an exchange rate market (USD/JPY) is examined for the period of 1998 to 2000. Calculating power spectrum densities for the number of tick quotes per minute and averaging them over the year yield that the mean power spectrum density has a peak at high frequenci…
Detect anomalies in complex networks using topological subspace detectors.
problem Detect anomalies in complex networks defined by simplicial complexes.
method Formulate a hypothesis testing framework using Neyman-Pearson matched topological subspace detectors.
result Effective detection of anomalies in foreign currency exchange networks and other real-world data.
Gold and currency markets form a unique pair with specific interactions and dynamics. We focus on the efficiency ranking of gold markets with respect to the currency of purchase. By utilizing the Efficiency Index (EI) based on fractal dimension, approximate entropy and long-term memory on a wide portfolio of 142 gold p…
Paper examines pricing and hedging for cross-currency swaps referencing backward-looking rates.
problem Pricing and hedging cross-currency swaps with backward-looking rates.
method Uses interest rate and currency futures for hedging, analyzes arbitrage-free multi-curve setting.
result Explicit pricing and hedging results for CCBS with backward-looking rates.
Using Network-based Causal Inference to Detect the Sources of Contagion in the Currency Marketq-fin.ST
New method detects currency contagion sources using causal inference.
problem Lack of causal interpretation in quantifying contagion among currencies.
method Network-based causal inference to identify contagion paths.
result Identifies sources of contagion and diversification options.
World currency network constitutes one of the most complex structures that is associated with the contemporary civilization. On a way towards quantifying its characteristics we study the cross correlations in changes of the daily foreign exchange rates within the basket of 60 currencies in the period December 1998 -- M…
Market Efficiency in Foreign Exchange Marketsphysics.soc-ph
We investigate the relative market efficiency in financial market data, using the approximate entropy(ApEn) method for a quantification of randomness in time series. We used the global foreign exchange market indices for 17 countries during two periods from 1984 to 1998 and from 1999 to 2004 in order to study the effic…
In a market of deterministic cash flows, given as an additive, symmetric relation of exchangeability on the finite signed Borel measures on the non-negative real time axis, it is shown that the only arbitrage-free price functional that fulfills some additional mild requirements is the integral of the unit zero-coupon b…
Subdiffusive fractional Brownian motion regime for pricing currency options under transaction costsq-fin.PR
A new framework for pricing the European currency option is developed in the case where the spot exchange rate fellows a time-changed fractional Brownian motion. An analytic formula for pricing European foreign currency option is proposed by a mean self-financing delta-hedging argument in a discrete time setting. The m…
A new approach for pricing FX options that uses a single model for all markets.
problem Consistent pricing of FX options across different markets.
method Intermediate currency approach, calibrating to domestic market volatility smile.
result Model automatically reproduces correct foreign market volatility smiles.
We develop an optimal currency hedging strategy for fund managers who own foreign assets to choose the hedge tenors that maximize their FX carry returns within a liquidity risk constraint. The strategy assumes that the offshore assets are fully hedged with FX forwards. The chosen liquidity risk metric is Cash Flow at R…
We analyze the multifractal spectra of daily foreign exchange rates for Japan, Hong-Kong, Korea, and Thailand with respect to the United States Dollar from 1991 to 2005. We find that the return time series show multifractal spectrum features for all four cases. To observe the effect of the Asian currency crisis, we als…
This research uses empirical copulas to price quanto options, showing significant differences from traditional models.
problem The dependence relation between currency and asset prices affects quanto option pricing.
method Empirical copulas are used to model the dependence between currency and asset prices.
result Empirical copulas provide non-negligible pricing differences compared to traditional models.
Using a Levy process we generalize formulas in Bo et al.(2010) for the Esscher transform parameters for the log-normal distribution which ensure the martingale condition holds for the discounted foreign exchange rate. Using these values of the parameters we find a risk-neural measure and provide new formulas for the di…
Topology of Currencies: Persistent Homology for FX Co-movements: A Comparative Clustering Studystat.ML
TDA improves FX clustering quality over traditional methods.
problem Capturing complex currency co-movements in FX markets.
method Topological Data Analysis (TDA) compared to traditional statistical methods on monthly FX returns.
result TDA-based clustering yields more compact and well-separated clusters.
We have presented a novel technique of detecting intermittencies in a financial time series of the foreign exchange rate data of U.S.- Euro dollar(US/EUR) using a combination of both statistical and spectral techniques. This has been possible due to Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) analysis which has been popularly a…