Staff working papers
Belief Dispersion and Order Submission Strategies in the Foreign Exchange Market
This paper empirically examines how dispersions across investors beliefs influence traders order submission decisions in the foreign exchange market. Previous research has found that dispersion in traders beliefs regarding future macroeconomic announcements has a significant impact on both price dynamics and trading volume before the announcements in the foreign exchange and other financial markets.Private Information Flow and Price Discovery in the U.S. Treasury Market
Existing studies show that U.S. Treasury bond price changes are mainly driven by public information shocks, as manifested in macroeconomic news announcements and events. The literature also shows that heterogeneous private information contributes significantly to price discovery for U.S. Treasury securities.Information Shocks, Jumps, and Price Discovery - Evidence from the U.S. Treasury Market
We examine large price changes, known as jumps, in the U.S. Treasury market. Using recently developed statistical tools, we identify price jumps in the 2-, 3-, 5-, 10-year notes and 30-year bond during the period of 2005-2006.Price Formation and Liquidity Provision in Short-Term Fixed Income Markets
Differences in market structures may affect the manner in which fundamental information is incorporated into prices. High levels of quote and trade transparency plus substantial quoting obligations in European government securities markets ensure that prices are informationally efficient.Order Aggressiveness and Quantity: How Are They Determined in a Limit Order Market?
Dealers trading in a limit order market must choose both the order aggressiveness and the quantity for their orders. We empirically investigate how dealers jointly make these decisions in the foreign exchange market using a unique simultaneous equations model.A Structural Error-Correction Model of Best Prices and Depths in the Foreign Exchange Limit Order Market
Traders using the electronic limit order book in the foreign exchange market can watch the posted price and depth of the best quotes change over the day.An Evaluation of MLE in a Model of the Nonlinear Continuous-Time Short-Term Interest Rate
The author compares the performance of three Gaussian approximation methods - by Nowman (1997), Shoji and Ozaki (1998), and Yu and Phillips (2001) - in estimating a model of the nonlinear continuous-time short-term interest rate.Order Submission: The Choice between Limit and Market Orders
Most financial markets allow investors to submit both limit and market orders, but it is not always clear what affects the choice of order type.Bank publications
Financial System Review articles
Journal publications
Other Publications
- “Information Shocks, Liquidity Shocks, Jumps, and Price Discovery: Evidence from the U.S. Treasury Market.”
(with G. J. Jiang, and A. Verdelhan) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46 (2): 527–51, 2011.