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In 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission mandated that the chief executive officers of large, publicly traded firms certify the accuracy of their company financial statements. In this paper, I investigate whether CEO certification has had a measurable effect on the stock market valuation...
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-ask spreads and depth), returns, volatility, and order flow in the stock and bond markets. We find that a shock to quoted spreads … in one market affects the spreads in both markets, and that return volatility is an important driver of liquidity …. Innovations to stock and bond market liquidity and volatility prove to be significantly correlated, suggesting that common factors …
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"We conduct a systematic comparison of confidence intervals around estimated probabilities of default (PD), using several analytical approaches from large-sample theory and bootstrapped small-sample confidence intervals. We do so for two different PD estimation methods--cohort and duration...
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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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We examine 120 Nasdaq and Over-the-Counter "buy" recommendations made by Internet sites from April 1999 to June 2001. The stock picks show substantial short- and long-run price and liquidity gains, although no new information is revealed about them. For example, liquidity one year after the pick...
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high frequency. The model yields predictions on biweekly patterns of the federal funds rate's volatility and on its … results are consistent with empirical patterns of interest rate volatility in the U.S. market for federal funds …
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Does the presence of arbitrageurs decrease equilibrium asset price volatility? I study an economy with arbitrageurs … effect). In equilibrium, the presence of arbitrageurs increases volatility when the inference effect dominates the arbitrage …
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