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was announced, and that gilt liquidity worsened conditional on factors such as funding costs and inventory risk. We also … requirements has been a reduction in the liquidity of fixed income markets. We assess this claim in the context of the gilt (UK … government bond) and gilt repo markets. We find that gilt repo liquidity worsened during the period when UK leverage ratio policy …
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Default correlation is a key driver of credit risk. In the Basel regulatory framework it is measured by the asset value correlation parameter. Though past studies suggest that the parameter is over-calibrated for mortgages — generally the largest asset class on banks' balance sheets — they...
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We investigate the impact that the publication of the Bank of England's Financial Stability Report (FSR) has on the stock returns and credit default swap spreads of UK financial institutions. Examining a sample of 73 UK-listed banks and other financial institutions, we find that publication of...
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-fencing requirements in 2019, we document novel implications of such separation for credit and liquidity supply, competition, and risk …-taking via a funding structure channel. By preventing conglomerates from using retail deposits to fund investment banking … supplying credit lines and underwriting services to large corporates. By redirecting the benefits of deposit funding towards the …
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as market-wide and country-specific measures of liquidity and credit quality. We apply our methodology to generate … Italian and Spanish liquidity and credit variables and evaluate the impact of these shocks on several bond portfolio … strategies. The empirical findings suggest that both country-specific liquidity and credit measures are important in explaining …
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This paper is about the effectiveness of qualitative easing, a form of unconventional monetary policy that changes the risk composition of the central bank balance sheet with the goal of stabilizing economic activity. We construct a general equilibrium model where agents have rational...
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We assess the impact of contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds and the wealth transfers they imply conditional on conversion on the risk-taking behaviour of the issuing bank. We also test for regulatory arbitrage: do banks try to maintain risk-taking incentives by issuing CoCo bonds, when...
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individual and joint impact of leverage, capital and liquidity coverage ratios on participants’ trading in all collateral … are constrained by a single ratio or not constrained, with implications for market liquidity …
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on the market — or the level of ‘market liquidity premia'. In the model the impact on market liquidity varies for … liquidity risk premia are higher under the new regulations, but also that corporate bond market liquidity is more resilient due …-crisis. Mapping these changes in liquidity premia to GDP, via their impact on the cost of borrowing for corporates in the real economy …
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This paper examines the role of high-frequency traders in flash episodes in electronic financial markets. To do so, we construct an agent-based model of a market for a financial asset in which trading occurs through a central limit order book. The model consists of heterogeneous agents with...
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