Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19682 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series 1 No. 2007,05
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In this paper we provide evidence for Evans and Lyons' (2005b) model of an information aggregation process in FX markets using a German bank's end-user order flow from 2002 to 2003. Though customer order flow is unambiguously the vehicle incorporating non-public information into exchange rates over time, our empirical analysis does not support the widespread optimism in the market microstructure literature that customer order flow is the high-powered source of information easily exploitable for short-run speculation. Moreover, commercial customers' order flow produces negative coefficients in contemporaneous return regressions, stressing their role as liquidity providers.
Subjects: 
Foreign exchange
market microstructure
end-user order flow
JEL: 
F31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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