Efficiency of the foreign currency options market

This paper provides a new test of the efficiency of the currency option markets for four major cyrrencies -British Pound, Euro, Swiss Frank and Japanese Yen vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar. The approach is to simulate trading strategies to see if the well accepted no-arbitrage condition of put-call parity...

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Main Authors: Hoque, Mohammed, Chan, Felix, Manzur, Meher
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV, North-Holland 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18699
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Chan, Felix
Manzur, Meher
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description This paper provides a new test of the efficiency of the currency option markets for four major cyrrencies -British Pound, Euro, Swiss Frank and Japanese Yen vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar. The approach is to simulate trading strategies to see if the well accepted no-arbitrage condition of put-call parity (PCP) holds in a trading environment. Augmented Dickey-Fuller and Philips-Perron test are used to check for the presence of unit root in the data, followed by a formal econometric analysis. The results indicate that the most currency option prices do not violate the PCP conditions, when transaction costs are allowed for.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-186992018-03-29T09:06:23Z Efficiency of the foreign currency options market Hoque, Mohammed Chan, Felix Manzur, Meher This paper provides a new test of the efficiency of the currency option markets for four major cyrrencies -British Pound, Euro, Swiss Frank and Japanese Yen vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar. The approach is to simulate trading strategies to see if the well accepted no-arbitrage condition of put-call parity (PCP) holds in a trading environment. Augmented Dickey-Fuller and Philips-Perron test are used to check for the presence of unit root in the data, followed by a formal econometric analysis. The results indicate that the most currency option prices do not violate the PCP conditions, when transaction costs are allowed for. 2008 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18699 10.1016/j.gfj.2008.02.002 Elsevier BV, North-Holland restricted
spellingShingle Hoque, Mohammed
Chan, Felix
Manzur, Meher
Efficiency of the foreign currency options market
title Efficiency of the foreign currency options market
title_full Efficiency of the foreign currency options market
title_fullStr Efficiency of the foreign currency options market
title_full_unstemmed Efficiency of the foreign currency options market
title_short Efficiency of the foreign currency options market
title_sort efficiency of the foreign currency options market
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18699