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market liquidity and trading of other market participants. IDT contribute 10% to volume while losing 3.2 bp (73% of the half …-spread) on average on trades with others, including proprietary day traders (PDT), the primary intraday-liquidity providers, and …
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We examine the impacts of ethical declarations on market transactions through a controlled laboratory experiment, where privately-informed sellers issue a public report prior to a first-price auction. We find that while signing an ethical statement does not reduce misreporting by sellers, it...
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Cross-sectional forecasts of conservative and optimistic biases in analyst earnings estimates predict a stock's future returns, especially for firms that are hard to value. Trading strategies--whether based on the component of analyst bias that is correlated with major return anomalies or the...
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We measure investors' short- and long-term stock-return expectations using both options and survey data. These expectations at different horizons reveal what investors think their own short-term expectations will be in the future, or forward return expectations. While contemporaneous short-term...
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Recent theories of exchange rate determination have emphasized limited UIP arbitrage by international financial … institutions. New regulations since 2008 have also lead to imperfect CIP arbitrage. We show that under limited CIP arbitrage the … operate through the swap market, which have no effect under perfect CIP arbitrage. More familiar financial shocks that impact …
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We provide evidence for a causal link between the US economy and the global financial cycle. Using intraday data, we show that US macroeconomic news releases have large and significant effects on global risky asset prices. Stock price indexes of 27 countries, the VIX, and commodity prices all...
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This study analyzes information production and trading behavior of banks with lending relationships. We combine trade-by-trade supervisory data and credit-registry data to examine banks' proprietary trading in borrower stocks around a large number of corporate events. We find that relationship...
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We investigate how information processing frictions contribute to household suboptimal saving and investment behavior. We find that 60% of open accounts in college 529 savings plans are invested suboptimally due to high expenses and tax inefficiency. Such investments yield an expected loss of 9%...
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We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital …, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing … so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral constraint limits their positions as a function of capital. We show that …
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liquidity by quickly turning stocks into cash. We propose a trading model in which these two roles are endogenously related …: more intensive use of stocks for liquidity affects both the information and the noise about fundamentals contained in … banking system has trouble providing liquidity. We incorporate this module into a dynamic general equilibrium model to study …
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