The paper presents a two-period Walrasian financial market model composed of informed and uninformed rational investors, and noise traders. The rational investors maximize second period consumption utility from the payoffs of trading risk-free holdings to risky assets in the first period. The...

Evidence on the effectiveness of FX interventions is either limited to short horizons or hampered by debatable identification. We address these limitations by identifying a structural vector autoregressive model for the daily frequency with an external instrument. Generally, we find, for freely...

Dynamic correlation, Exogenous variables, DCCX, Macroeconomic Announcements, Diversification benefits. - In this dissertation, I analyze determinants of conditional correlations. Specifically, I propose the generalized DCCX model that facilitates the analysis of the effects of exogenous...