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spot-futures price efficiency improvement observed after ETF introduction is explained either by the direct effect of ETF … shares being used in arbitrage trades or by the indirect effect of ETF trading improving the liquidity of index stocks in the … way index traders distribute across index markets, with the ETF market absorbing the liquidity demand from some hedgers or …
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This article examines how the introduction of an ETF replicating a stock index impacts on the liquidity of the … underlying stocks when the ETF market involves liquidity providers (LPs). We find that index stock spreads decline, relative to … those of non-index stocks, after the introduction of the ETF but this liquidity improvement is not driven by changes in …
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Inflation shocks are one of the pitfalls of developing economies and are usually difficult to hedge. This paper examines the optimal strategic asset allocation for a Brazilian investor seeking to hedge inflation risk at different horizons, ranging from one to 30 years. Using a...
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This paper proposes an Heath-Jarrow-Morton model of the yield curve that can fit the particular requirements of long-term asset and liability management (ALM). In particular, the proposed HJM model can reproduce expected long-term statistical properties of any two interest rates, while still...
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The exceptional rise in government deficits following the subprime crisis, the recent commodity price spikes and the increase in inflation volatility have revived the debate on medium to long-term resurgence of inflation. Using a vector-autoregressive model, this paper investigates the...
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The unconventional monetary policies implemented in the wake of the subprime crisis and the recent increase in inflation volatility have revived the debate on medium to long-term resurgence of inflation. This paper presents the optimal strategic asset allocation for investors seeking to hedge...
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Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...
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and 2009. Building on a longitudinal qualitative study of the French ETF market, we present the multiple regulatory and …
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