This paper estimates models of high frequency index futures returns using 'around the clock' 5-minute returns that incorporate the following key features: multiple persistent stochastic volatility factors, jumps in prices and volatilities, seasonal components capturing time of the day patterns,...

We incorporate terms-of-trade externality into a small open economy featuring an incomplete market, sterilized intervention, and capital controls as in Chang et al. (2015), and we highlight the central banks reaction to exchange rate movement. Our calibrated model using data from China shows...

Does increasing the traders' understanding of the functioning of financial markets lead to rational expectations equilibrium? We provide an answer by studying a simple exchange economy with complete markets and asymmetric information. Each trader is either a fundamentalist, who knows the...

Does increasing the traders' understanding of the functioning of financial markets lead to rational expectations equilibrium? We provide an answer by studying a simple exchange economy with complete markets and asymmetric information. Each trader is either a fundamentalist, who knows the...