Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/209821 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003/7
Publisher: 
Norges Bank, Oslo
Abstract: 
The relationship between volume and volatility has received much attention in the literature on financial markets. However, due to the lack of data, few results have been presented for the foreign exchange (FX) market. Furthermore, most studies contain only aggregate series, and cannot distinguish between the impact of different participants or instruments. We study the impact of volume on volatility in the FX market using a unique data set of daily trading in the Swedish krona (SEK) market. The data set covers 95 percent of worldwide SEK trading, and is disaggregated on a number of reporting banks' buying and selling in five different instruments on a daily basis from 1995 until 2002. We find that volume in general shows a positive correlation with volatility. However, the strength of the relationship depends on the instrument traded and the identity of the reporting bank. In particular, we find that trading tends to concentrate around the largest banks during periods of high volatility. These banks are probably also best informed. This is especially the case when volatility is high. We interpret this as evidence that heterogeneous expectations are important to an understanding of the volume-volatility relationship.
Subjects: 
volume-volatility relation
microstructure
exchange rates
JEL: 
F31
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ISBN: 
82-7553-215-9
Additional Information: 
Forthcoming in Exchange Rate Modelling: Where do we Stand? (Paul De Grauwe, ed.), MIT Press
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper
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