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This paper develops and implements a framework for quantifying the gains to international trade in risky financial assets. The framework can handle may agents, many assets, incomplete markets and limited participation in asset markets. It delivers closed-form analytic solutions for consumption,...
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Treasury securities by 11 categories of investors. The model is closed with the addition of six market-clearing identities …
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In this paper we: (i) provide a model of the endogenous risk intolerance and severe aggregate demand contractions following a large real (non-financial) shock; and (ii) demonstrate the effectiveness of Large Scale Asset Purchases (LSAPs) in addressing these contractions. The key mechanism stems...
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We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital … tool, we study the introduction of the legacy Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). By considering …
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Stock and Treasury bond comovement, volatilities, and their relations to their price valuations and fundamentals change stochastically over time, both in magnitude and direction. These stochastic changes are explained by a general equilibrium model in which agents learn about composite economic...
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Why do security analysts issue overly positive recommendations? We propose a novel approach to distinguish strategic motives (e.g., generating small-investor purchases and pleasing management) from nonstrategic motives (genuine overoptimism). We argue that nonstrategic distorters tend to issue...
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empirically documented features that market liquidity (i) can suddenly dry up, (ii) has commonality across securities, (iii) is …
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Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) have reinvigorated an old literature on the link between home bias in the goods market and home bias in the asset market by arguing that trade costs in the goods market can account for the observed portfolio home bias. The key link between home bias in the two markets...
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Asset-backed securities represent one of the largest and fastest growing financial markets. Under securitization … a whole loan. We examine how outsourcing impacts performance using data on 357 commercial mortgage-backed securities …, including conflicts between junior and senior securities holders (the asset substitution problem) and risk aversion among …
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"Risk management" in securities markets refers to the oversight of portfolio managers and professional traders when …
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