This paper offers a dynamic noisy rational expectations model of the foreign exchange market with two dimensions of information asymmetry. Some investors are assumed to have public information, the rest are assumed to possess both public and private information. This paper demonstrates why...

We use unique regulatory data to examine open positions and activity in both listed and OTC volatility derivatives. Gross vega notional outstanding for index variance swaps is over USD 2 billion, with dealers short vega in order to supply the long vega demand of asset managers. For maturities...

We find that intermediary risk appetite plays an important role in the availability of dealer hedging services provided to real economy firms. We show that dealers intermediate the swap exposures of different clienteles and hedge some residual risk in the futures market. Using novel data on WTI...

This paper offers a dynamic noisy rational expectations model of the foreign exchange market with two dimensions of information asymmetry. Some investors are assumed to have public information, the rest are assumed to possess both public and private information. This paper demonstrates why...