News announcements, market activity and volatility in the euro/dollar foreign exchange market

Autor: Luc Bauwens, Walid Ben Omrane, Pierre Giot
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Journal of International Money and Finance. 24:1108-1125
ISSN: 0261-5606
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2005.08.008
Popis: We study the impact of nine categories of scheduled and unscheduled news announcements on the euro/dollar return volatility. We highlight and analyze the pre-announcement, contemporaneous and post-announcement reactions. Using high-frequency intraday data and within the framework of ARCH-type models, we show that volatility increases in the pre-announcement periods, particularly before scheduled events. Market activity also significantly impacts return volatility as expected by the theoretical literature on the order flow.
Databáze: OpenAIRE