We show that a small set of emerging markets with floating exchange rates expand the investment frontier substantially relative to G10 currencies. The frontier is characterized by an out-of-sample mean-variance efficient portfolio that prices G10- and emerging markets-based trading strategies...

We ask whether the markets expected the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to discontinue the 1.20 cap on the Swiss franc against the euro in January 2015. In the runup to the SNB announcement, neither options on the euro/Swiss franc nor FX liquidity indicated a significant shift in market expectations....

Meine Dissertation besteht aus drei Arbeiten zum Thema Wechselkurse: (1) Liquidität in Devisenmärkten, (2) Währungsstrategien und Länderrisiko, (3) Zusammenhang zwischen Devisen-, Anleihenmärkte und Geldpolitik. Die erste Arbeit ist in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Angelo Ranaldo und Prof. Paul...

Devaluation expectations for the Swedish krona are estimated for the period 1982-1991 with several methods. First the "simplest test" is applied under either only the minimal assumption of "no positive minimum profit" or the additional assumption of uncovered interest parity. Then a more precise...