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effect). In equilibrium, the presence of arbitrageurs increases volatility when the inference effect dominates the arbitrage …Does the presence of arbitrageurs decrease equilibrium asset price volatility? I study an economy with arbitrageurs …, informed investors, and noise traders. Arbitrageurs face a trade-off between arbitrage and inference: they would like to buy …
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Remarks at the Workshop on the Risks of Wholesale Funding, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.
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The goal of integrated risk management in a financial institution is to measure and manage risk and capital across a range of diverse business activities. This requires an approach for aggregating risk types (market, credit, and operational) whose distributional shapes vary considerably. In this...
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We study common determinants of daily bid-ask spreads and trading volume for the bond and stock markets over the 1991-98 period. We find that spread changes in one market are affected by lagged spread and volume changes in both markets. Further, spread and volume changes are predictable to a...
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This paper explores liquidity movements in stock and Treasury bond markets over a period of more than 1800 trading days. Cross-market dynamics in liquidity are documented by estimating a vector autoregressive model for liquidity (that is, bid-ask spreads and depth), returns, volatility, and...
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We employ a model of leverage-induced explosive behavior in financial markets to develop a measure of financial market instability. Specifically, we derive a quantitative condition for how large levered investors can become relative to the whole market before the demand curve for securities...
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Remarks at the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, New York University Stern School of Business, New York City.
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inferences about anticipated returns. This study derives arbitrage-free affine forward currency models (AFCMs) with closed …
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A small but ambitious literature uses affine arbitrage-free models to estimate jointly U.S. Treasury term premiums and …
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The consensus suggests that subdued nominal U.S. Treasury yields on balance since the onset of the global financial crisis primarily reflect exceptionally low, if not occasionally negative, term premiums as opposed to low anticipated short rates. Depressed term premiums plausibly owe to...
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