Arbeitspapier

Die manisch-depressiven Preisschwankungen auf den Finanzmärkten: Wie macht das die "unsichtbare Hand"?

Speculative markets such as those for stocks or currencies typically have an extremely short time horizon for transactions. Yet at the same time, stock prices and exchange rates go up or down in trend curves of several years ("bull" and "bear" markets). The paper takes the dollar/euro exchange rate to study how short-term price movements accumulate to produce long-term trends. It found that speculative prices fluctuate around "underlying trends". The "trending" phenomenon repeats iself along a range of time scales. Long-term trends develop from the accumulation of price waves based on daily rates which continue longer in one direction than the other across several years. A succession of such trends produces a pattern typical for the long-term dynamism of speculative prices: they vary in irregular cycles across a factual balance range without inclining to converge towards that balance.

Language
Deutsch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 305

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Finanzmärkte
Handelstechniken
Wechselkursdynamik
Wechselkurs
Volatilität
US-Dollar
Euro
Finanzmarkt
Deutschland
USA

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schulmeister, Stephan
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
(where)
Vienna
(when)
2007

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Schulmeister, Stephan
  • Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)

Time of origin

  • 2007

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