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little support for claims that fair-value accounting leads to excessive write-downs of banks' assets. If anything, empirical …
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The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pros and cons of fair-value accounting (FVA). This debate presents a major challenge for FVA going forward and standard setters' push to extend FVA into other areas. In this article, we highlight four important issues as an...
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supplying liquidity to asynchronously arriving investors. Empirically, twelve years of daily New York Stock Exchange …
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that both the sensitivity of returns to liquidity and liquidity premia have significantly declined over the past four … strategies virtually unprofitable. Our results are robust to several conventional liquidity measures related to volume. When … using liquidity measure that is not related to volume, we find just weak evidence of a liquidity premium even in the early …
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We use a unique data set from the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) to study liquidity e ffects in the US … structured product market. Our main contribution is the analysis of the relation between the accuracy in measuring liquidity and … provide guidance for improving transparency while maintaining trader confidentiality. In addition, we analyze liquidity in the …
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Die Vorstellung selbst-stabilisierender, zum Gleichgewicht tendierender Finanzmärkte, lange Zeit als Selbstverständlichkeit angesehen, ist durch die aktuelle Banken- und Kreditkrise in Frage gestellt. Trotz ausgefeilten Risikomanagements der Banken und einer an Basel II orientierten Aufsicht...
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transmission from or to sovereigns and banks are aggregated as a Contagion index (CI). This index is disentangled into four … framework by Diebold and Yilmaz (2011), we quantify spillovers between sovereign credit markets and banks in the euro area … components, the average potential spillover: i) amongst sovereigns, ii) amongst banks, iii) from sovereigns to banks, and iv …
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The aim of this paper is to examine what has been the role of information provision to the market throughout the crisis. We consider two main sources of information to the market, financial statements and information provided by credit rating agencies. We examine how these sources of information...
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direction of company-specific news. Information-implied reactions in returns, volatility as well as liquidity demand and supply …, this is only true if news items are classified as highly relevant. Liquidity supply reacts less distinctly due to a …
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We use new data from SEC filings to investigate how S&P 500 firms execute their open market repurchase programs. We find that smaller S&P 500 firms repurchase less frequently than larger firms, and at a price which is significantly lower than the average market price. Their repurchase activity...
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