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Evaluating the forecasting performance of commodity futures prices

Reeve, Trevor A.; Vigfusson, Robert J. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2011

Commodity futures prices are frequently criticized as being uninformative for forecasting purposes because (1) they seem to do no better than a random walk or an extrapolation of recent trends and (2) futures prices for commodities often trace out a relatively flat trajectory even though global...

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Assessing the potential for further foreign demand for U.S. assets: Has financing U.S. current account deficits made foreign investors overweight in U.S. securities?

Bertaut, Carol C. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2008

Since 2001, foreign investors have acquired roughly $5 trillion in U.S. securities--more than doubling their holdings …. Although the rapid growth of foreign holdings of U.S. securities raises concerns that foreign investors may have become too ….S. and other foreign securities in their portfolios in recent years. Based on data from the most recent comprehensive surveys …

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Noise traders, excess volatility, and a securities transactions tax

Kupiec, Paul H. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1995

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Bringing new issues to market: a theory of underwriting

Benveniste, Lawrence M.; Spindt, Paul A. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1988

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A survey of exchange-traded basket instruments

Kupiec, Paul H. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1989

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The economics of the private equity market.

Fenn, George W.; Liang, Nellie; Prowse, Stephen - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1995

The private equity market has become an important source of funds for start-up firms, private middle-market firms, firms in financial distress, and public firms seeking buyout financing. Between 1980 and 1994, the amount of private equity outstanding rose from less than $5 billion to $100...

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The impact of underwriting and dealing on bank returns and risks

Kwast, Myron L. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1987

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Monthly estimates of U.S. cross-border securities positions

Bertaut, Carol C.; Tryon, Ralph W. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2007

This paper reports monthly estimates of U.S. cross-border securities positions obtained by combining the (now) annual …

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The fragility of discretionary liquidity provision - lessons from the collapse of the auction rate securities market

Han, Song; Li, Dan - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2010

. The laboratory of our study is the recent collapse of the auction rate securities (ARS) market. Using a comprehensive …

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Could asymmetric information alone have caused the collapse of private-label securitization?

Beltran, Daniel O.; Thomas, Charles P. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2010

A key feature of the 2007-2008 financial crisis is that for some classes of securities trade has ceased. And where … class of security. This seems to be especially true for those securities where the payoff streams are particularly complex … (for example, CDOs). One explanation for this is that information about these securities' intrinsic values is asymmetric …

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