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We study settlement fails for trades in the Government of Canada bond market. We find that settlement fails do not occur independently. Using a novel and comprehensive dataset, we examine three drivers of fails. First, we find that fails are more likely following the release of surprise...
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This paper finds that Government of Canada benchmark bonds tend to be more illiquid over the subsequent month when there is a large increase in government debt supply. The result is both statistically and economically significant, stronger for the long-term than the short-term sector, and is...
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Constrained efficient allocation (CE) is characterized in a model of adverse selection and directed search (Guerrieri, Shimer, and Wright (2010)). CE is defined to be the allocation that maximizes welfare, the ex-ante utility of all agents, subject to the frictions of the environment. When...
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This paper studies the role of narratives for macroeconomic fluctuations. We micro-found narratives as directed acyclic graphs and show how exposure to different narratives can affect expectations in an otherwise standard macroeconomic model. We capture such competing narratives in news media's...
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Dealer networks provide essential intermediation services in over-the-counter markets. We document the response of dealer networks to the arrival of new public information. We find that after public news releases, dealer networks become more complex and channel larger flows of securities between...
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In this paper, we present a novel method to extract the risk-neutral probability of default of a firm from American put option prices. Building on the idea of a default corridor proposed in Carr and Wu (2011), we derive a parsimonious closed-form formula for American put option prices from which...
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function, we decompose the growth of trend GDP into those of the capital stock, labour, human capital and total factor … productivity (TFP) and then forecast trend output growth out to 2030 using a bottom-up approach based on forecasts that we build … Chinese TFP growth based on the aggregation of forecasts of its key determinants. Moreover, our analysis is based on a …
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Capital-goods imports have become an increasing source of growth for the U.S. economy. To understand this phenomenon …, we build a neoclassical growth model with international trade in capital goods in which agents face exogenous paths of … sources of output growth in the U.S. economy. Our findings suggest that the model allocation decisions coming from changes in …
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We ask whether a weaker contribution of information and communication technologies (ICT) to productivity growth could … methods capturing channels through which ICT could affect aggregate productivity growth. This includes an approach "à la Cette … use and production effects, and an approach "à la Oulton (2012)" that highlights the role of relatively weak growth in ICT …
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This paper introduces a new methodology to date systemic financial stress events in a transparent, objective and reproducible way. The financial cycle is captured by a monthly country-specific financial stress index. Based on a Markov-switching model, high financial stress regimes are...
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