The Jump Behavior of Foreign Exchange Market: Analysis of Thai Baht

Jow-Ran Chang (), Mao-Wei Hung (), Cheng Few Lee and Hsin-Min Lu ()
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Jow-Ran Chang: Department of Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Mao-Wei Hung: College of Management, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Hsin-Min Lu: Eller College of Management, Univeristy of Arizona, Tucson, USA

Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), 2007, vol. 10, issue 02, 265-288

Abstract: We use square root stochastic volatility with or without jump model to study the heteroskedasticity and jump behavior of the Thai Baht. Bayesian factor is used to evaluate the explanatory power of competing model. It turns out that the square root stochastic volatility model with independent jump in observation and state equations (SVIJ) has the best explanatory power to our sample. Using the estimation results of the SVIJ model, we are able to link the major events of the Asian financial crisis to the jump behavior of either volatility or observation.

Keywords: Asian financial crisis; foreign exchange market; jump behavior; Markov chain Monte Carlo; stochastic volatility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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