This paper investigates high-frequency (HF) trading in the U.S. Treasury market around macroeconomic news announcements. After identifying HF market and limit orders based on the speed of their placement alteration and cancellation deemed beyond manual ability, we use the introduction of the...

This working paper was written by Kalok Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School), F.Y. Eric Lam (Independent Researcher)*, Giorgio Valente (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research) and Siyuan Wu (Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School).Trading venues have...

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the short-horizon predictive ability of economic fundamentals and forward premiums on monthly exchange-rate returns in a framework that allows for volatility timing. We implement Bayesian methods for estimation and ranking of a set of empirical...