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In the course of the 1990s, the EU has embarked on an ambitious regulatory reform programme for a number of European network industries, such as telecommunications, energy and transport. This paper analyses the potential benefits of successful reforms in these sectors with a focus on the price...
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This paper offers a new framework for the assessment of financial market liquidity and identifies two types: search … liquidity and systemic liquidity. Search liquidity, i.e. liquidity in “normal” times, is driven by search costs required for a … trader to find a willing buyer for an asset he/she is trying to sell or vice versa. Search liquidity is asset specific …
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. This trade-off generates a number of insights about the impact of market conditions, e.g. liquidity and trading horizons …
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finds that common shocks – key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk – have exerted a large effect …
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We study the prices that individual banks pay for liquidity (captured by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank … depend in particular on the distribution of liquidity across banks, which is calculated over time using individual banklevel … data on reserve requirements and actual holdings. Banks pay more for liquidity when positions are more imbalanced across …
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We measure the commonality in hedge fund returns, identify its main driving factor and analyse its implications for financial stability. We find that hedge funds’ commonality increased significantly from 2003 until 2006. We attribute this rise mainly to the increase in hedge funds’ exposure...
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We study the functioning of secured and unsecured inter-bank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates empirical predictions that are in line with developments during the 2007-2009 financial crises. Interest rates decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an...
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We discuss the notion of liquidity and liquidity risk within the financial system. We distinguish between three … different liquidity types, central bank liquidity, funding and market liquidity and their relevant risks. In order to understand … the workings of financial system liquidity, as well as the role of the central bank, we bring together relevant literature …
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factors and liquidity. Our analysis confirms the existence of a long-run relationship between the two markets, and the … CDS markets becoming more sensitive to systematic risk while cash bond markets priced in more information about liquidity …
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find that on-the-run status has only a negligible effect on the liquidity and pricing once other factors have been … market, leads to significant liquidity spillovers. Specifically, we find that bonds which are deliverable into futures …
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