This research explores upside and downside jumps in the dynamic processes of three rates: domestic interest rates, foreign interest rates, and exchange rates. To fill the gap between the asymmetric jump in the currency market and the current models, a correlated asymmetric jump model is proposed...

Technological innovation has changed the financial market significantly with the increasing application of high-frequency data in research and practice. This study examines the performance of intraday implied volatility (IV) in estimating currency options prices. Options quotations at a...

The currency options markets, both the dollar denominated options markets and the cross-currency options markets, carry important economic information about the evolution of exchange rates and the pricing of risk. However, it is challenging to integrate all this information together. This paper...

Does the primacy of the U.S. dollar affect the pricing of risks in the currency options market? Our findings rely on a daily option panel of 15 currencies. This analysis reveals that (i) put risk premiums are negative, implying across-the-board interest in hedging foreign currency depreciations;...

In this paper, we consider the Heston-CIR model with Levy process for pricing in the foreign exchange (FX) market by providing a new formula that better fits the distribution of prices. To do that, first, we study the existence and uniqueness of the solution to this model. Second, we examine the...