Foreign Exchange Volume: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing?

Richard Lyons ()

No 4984, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines whether currency trading volume is informative, and under what circumstances. Specifically, we use transactions data to test whether trades occurring when trading intensity is high are more informative - dollar for dollar - than trades occurring when intensity is low. Theory admits both possibilities, depending primarily on the posited information structure. We present what we call a hot-potato model of currency trading, which explains why low-intensity trades might be more informative. In the model, the wave of inventory-management trading among dealers following innovations in order flow generates an inverse relationship between intensity and information content. Empirically, low-intensity trades are more informative, supporting the hot-potato hypothesis."

JEL-codes: F31 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-01
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Published as Jeffrey Frankel, Giampaolo Galli and Alberto Giovannini, eds. The Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 183-201
Published as Foreign Exchange Volume: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing? , Richard K. Lyons. in The Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets , Frankel, Galli, and Giovannini. 1996

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