the pricing of European-style foreign currency options and for the volatility strike structure implicit in these contracts … is devoloped. The curvature of the volatility strike structure is explained by focusing attention on the expected … characteristic convex shape of volatility strike structures documented in the empirical literature. A volatility-based test for …

Bank of Japan (BoJ) and exchange rate volatility. We use official intervention data for the period 1993 - 2000 that were … released only recently by the BoJ and find that interventions of the BoJ increased the volatility of the $/yen exchange rate …

period to alter either the level or the volatility of the $/DM spot rate is examined. Volatility quotes implicit in foreign …