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....

The foreign exchange (FX) market is considered to be the largest and presumably most liquid financial market in the world. We show that even in this market exposure to liquidity risk commands a non-trivial risk premium of up to 3.6% per annum. In particular, systematic and currency-specific...

This supplemental appendix extends the main paper by presenting additional analyses and robustness checks. It also describes the procedure to construct the Monthly TAQ effective spread benchmark.The paper "A Simple Estimation of Bid-Ask Spreads from Daily Close, High, and Low Prices" to which...

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,...

Using a novel and comprehensive dataset, we provide the first systematic study of liquidity in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Contrary to common perceptions, we find significant variation in liquidity across exchange rates, substantial costs due to FX illiquidity, and strong commonality in...