Microstructure analysis on liquidity and informational efficiency in the foreign exchange market
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- IWATSUBO Kentaro
- Principal Investigator
- 神戸大学
About This Project
- Japan Grant Number
- JP21730253 (JGN)
- Funding Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
- Funding Organization
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Kakenhi Information
- Project/Area Number
- 21730253
- Research Category
- Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
- Allocation Type
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- Single-year Grants
- Review Section / Research Field
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- Humanities and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Economics > Public finance/Monetary economics
- Research Institution
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- Kobe University
- Project Period (FY)
- 2009 〜 2011
- Project Status
- Completed
- Budget Amount*help
- 4,290,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 3,300,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 990,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
We study the relationship between liquidity and informational efficiency in the foreign exchange markets. We find that in the electronic broking system informed traders prefer to submit limit orders to market orders and that the informational asymmetry between informed and liquidity traders decreases during the high volume and high liquidity business hours, contributing to improve the informational efficiency. Other study uses the customer market transaction data by a major European bank to investigate whether customer order flows reflect the pre-announced macro fundamentals. We find that the order flows by financial institutions incorporate the information on the not-yet-announced fundamentals and this explains the fundamental-disconnect puzzle and the news puzzle.