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had a measurable effect on the stock market valuation of the forty-two bank holding companies subject to the SEC order. I …
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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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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 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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Using data from bank holding company regulatory reports, we examine the relationshipbetween stock repurchases and … financial performance for a large sample of bank holding companies over the years 1987 to 1998. The primary result is that … be driven primarily by bank holding companies with publicly traded stock, especially those companies whose stock is …
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Foreign bank entrants into emerging markets are usually thought to improve the condition and performance of acquired … institutions, and more generally to enhance local financial stability. We use bank-specific data for a range of Latin American …
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We find, unlike earlier studies, that there is no rise in the market betas of stocks that enter the S&P 500 index when the estimated factor model is that of Fama and French (1993). We also find that SMB and HML factor betas decline after the stocks are added to the index. This decline is...
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We propose two new jump-robust estimators of integrated variance based on high-frequency return observations. These MinRV and MedRV estimators provide an attractive alternative to the prevailing bipower and multipower variation measures. Specifically, the MedRV estimator has better theoretical...
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