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Using a unique regulatory dataset with disclosed counterparty identities, we show that clients in corporate bond markets outperform when they trade with more dealers. The effect is stronger for informationally sensitive clients, assets, and during informationally intensive periods including...
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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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We analyse liquidity dynamics in the UK long gilt futures market. We use a novel order book dataset to assess liquidity … favour of resilience. We further show that this resilience does not come at the expense of a negative liquidity trend. These … liquidity in the UK long gilt futures market …
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We use proprietary transactional data to examine the determinants of liquidity in the UK government bond (gilt) market …-zone sovereign debt crisis. During this period, gilt market liquidity fluctuates significantly with execution costs almost doubling …-dealer segment of the market which leads to a further reduction in liquidity. This is consistent with the notion that the inter …
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We show that larger trades incur lower trading costs in government bond markets ('size discount'), but costs increase in trade size after controlling for clients’ identities (‘size penalty’). The size discount is driven by the cross‑client variation of larger traders obtaining better...
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risk or risk-free interest rates, than in the case of a perceived deterioration in corporate bond market liquidity …
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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 … was announced, and that gilt liquidity worsened conditional on factors such as funding costs and inventory risk. We also …
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Structured credit instruments offer an insight into markets’ perceptions of the extent of future credit defaults. Claims of different seniorities incur losses only if defaults reach different magnitudes, so their relative value offers an insight into the likelihood of losses being of different...
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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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This paper provides a means of estimating how ‘Solvency II' regulations — introduced in the European Union in January 2016 — might affect UK life insurers' incentives to hold different types of financial assets, and how these asset holdings are likely to vary in the face of hypothetical...
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