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We use the information in credit-default swaps to obtain direct measures of the size of the default and nondefault components in corporate spreads. We find that the majority of the corporate spread is due to default risk. This result holds for all rating categories and is robust to the...
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We show how uncertainty shapes the asset allocation, composition, productivity, and value of capital-intensive firms. We do so using detailed, near-universal data on shipping firms' new orders, secondary-market transactions, and demolition of ships. Firms curtail both the acquisition and...
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Retirement benefit guarantees can ensure a minimum standard of living in retirement. I propose a framework to discuss the design of such guarantees. The model features a standard life-cycle setting, in which individual agents' choices can have negative external effects on public finances,...
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From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the...
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China is the world's largest investor and greatest contributor to global economic growth by wide margins, and will remain so for many years. The efficiency of its financial system in allocating capital to investment will be important to sustain this growth. This paper shows that China's stock...
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the portfolio holds common stocks amounts to an asset swap. Such an asset swap does not increase national saving, wealth …. The asset swap is deemed successful if the stock portfolio generates sufficient cash to pay off the interest and principal …
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In March 2020, the Federal Reserve eased the terms on its standing swap lines in collaboration with other central banks …, reactivated temporary swap agreements, and then introduced the new Foreign and International Monetary Authorities (FIMA) repo … facility. We provide new evidence on how the central bank swap lines and FIMA repo facility reduce strains in global dollar …
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negative swap spreads should not be surprising. In the calibrated model, swap spreads can reasonably match empirical … counterparts without the need for large demand imbalances in the swap market. Empirical evidence is consistent with the relation … between term spreads and swap spreads in the model …
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sources of corporate Credit Default Swap prices: GFI, Fenics, Reuters EOD, CMA, Markit and JP Morgan, using the most liquid …
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-series variation of conditional volatility and skewness of the swap rate distributions implied by the swaption cube. We then develop … and skewness of the risk-neutral and physical swap rate distributions. Finally, we investigate the fundamental drivers of …
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