Abstract
Research on foreign exchange market microstructure focuses on the idea that trading is an integral part of the process whereby information relevant to the pricing of foreign currency becomes embedded in spot rates. Micro-based models of this process produce empirical predictions that find strong support in the data. Micro-based models can account for a large proportion of the daily variation in spot rates. They also supply a rationale for the apparent disconnect between spot rates and fundamentals. Micro-based models provide out-of-sample forecasting power for spot rates that is an order of magnitude above that usually found in exchange-rate models.
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Evans, M.D.D. (2018). Foreign Exchange Market Microstructure. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2222
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