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original set of market activity and liquidity proxies constructed from both pre- and post-trade data. The empirical literature … liquidity in a market dominated by utilitarian traders. We provide evidence that the Eurosystem's operational framework and … participants when reserve requirements become binding lead to a deterioration of market liquidity. Our analysis additionally turns …
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In their seminal paper French and Roll (1986) postulate that public information affects prices before anyone can trade on it. In contrast, several models assuming heterogeneous investors show that public news releases are directly followed by high trading volume. Empirical evidence on this...
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incentives to credit insitutions to use actively the interbank market to manage their liquidity needs. In this context, we … their liquidity shocks. This paper specifically focuses on the speed of reversion of transaction costs and available depth … reported evidence points to time-varying liquidity adjustments and identifies liquidity, market activity and the institutional …
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This paper assesses the contemporaneous, leading and lagging indicator properties of financial market variables relative to movements in six major developed country currency pairs. As indicator variables changes in various relative asset prices, short-term portfolio flows and currency options...
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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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