The Internet Appendix discusses details, additional results and robustness checks on the paper.The paper "Understanding FX Liquidity" to which these Appendices apply is available at the following URL: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2329738" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2329738

We provide a comprehensive study of the liquidity of spot foreign exchange (FX) rates over more than two decades and a large cross-section of currencies. First, we show that FX liquidity can be accurately measured with daily and readily-available data. Second, we demonstrate that FX liquidity...

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...

This paper develops a liquidity measure tailored to the foreign exchange (FX) market, quanties the amount of commonality in liquidity across dierent exchange rates, and determines theextent of liquidity risk premiums embedded in FX returns. The new liquidity measure utilizesultra high frequency...

This supplemental appendix extends the results in Mancini, Ranaldo, and Wrampelmeyer (2011), presenting additional analyses and robustness checks. It also describes the cleaning procedure of the EBS data, compares EBS to other datasets, and discusses the robust estimation of the price impact model

We study the theoretical and empirical properties of a simple measure of market illiquidity, namely the realized Amihud, which is defined as the ratio between the realized volatility and trading volume and which refines the popular price impact measure proposed by Amihud (2002). In our model,...

Arbitrage ensures that covered interest parity holds. The condition is central to price foreign exchange forwards and interbank lending rates, and reflects the efficient functioning of markets. Normally, deviations from arbitrage, if any, last seconds and reach a few basis points. After the...