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Investors' horizons and the Amplification of Market Shocks

Cella, Cristina; Ellul, Andrew; Giannetti, Mariassunta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

After negative shocks, investors with short trading horizons are inclined or forced to sell their holdings to a larger extent than investors with longer trading horizons. This may amplify the effects of market-wide shocks on stock prices. We test the relevance of this mechanism by exploiting the...

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Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees

Kelly, Bryan; Lustig, Hanno; van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We examine the pricing of financial crash insurance during the 2007-2009 financial crisis in U.S. option markets. A large amount of aggregate tail risk is missing from the price of financial sector crash insurance during the financial crisis. The difference in costs of out-of-the-money put...

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Accounting discretion of banks during a financial crisis

Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

particular, we show that the stock market applies far greater discounts to a bank’s real estate loans and mortgage … suggests that bank balance sheets overvalue real estate related assets during economic slowdowns. Estimated discounts are … impairment. We also find that bank share prices, especially for banks with large exposures to mortgage-backed securities, react …

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Price Effects of Sovereign Debt Auctions in the Euro-zone: The Role of the Crisis

Beetsma, Roel; de Jong, Frank; Giuliodori, Massimo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Exploring the period since the inception of the euro, we show that secondary-market yields on Italian public debt increase in anticipation of auctions of new issues and decrease after the auction, while no or a smaller such effect is present for German public debt. However, these yield movements...

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Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany

Ferguson, Thomas; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We examine the effect of close ties with the NSDAP on the stock price of listed firms in 1932-33. We consider not only links between the National Socialists and executives, as was common in earlier work, but also with supervisory board members – whose importance is hard to overestimate in the...

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Why was Stock Market Volatility so High During the Great Depression? Evidence from 10 Countries During the Interwar Period

Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The extreme levels of stock price volatility found during the Great Depression have often been attributed to political uncertainty. This Paper performs an explicit test of the Merton/Schwert hypothesis that doubts about the survival of the capitalist system were partly responsible. It does so by...

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Uncertainty about Government Policy and Stock Prices

Pástor, Luboš; Veronesi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We analyze how changes in government policy affect stock prices. Our general equilibrium model features uncertainty about government policy and a government that has both economic and non-economic motives. The government tends to change its policy after performance downturns in the private...

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Conflicts of Interest, Reputation, and the Interwar Debt Crisis: Banksters or Bad Luck?

Flandreau, Marc; Gaillard, Norbert; Panizza, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper builds a new dataset with detailed information on the universe of foreign government bonds issued in New York in the 1920s and uses these data to describe the behavior of the financial intermediaries which operated in the New York market during the period leading to the interwar debt...

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Short-Selling Bans around the World: Evidence from the 2007-09 Crisis

Beber, Alessandro; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Most stock exchange regulators around the world reacted to the 2007-2009 crisis by imposing bans or regulatory constraints on short-selling. Short-selling restrictions were imposed and lifted at different dates in different countries, often applied to different sets of stocks and featured...

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Financial Restraints and Liberalization in Postwar Europe

Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In the real world of less than perfect markets, balancing the benefits and costs of financial liberalization is usually impossible ex ante. Having been slow to liberalize, postwar Europe offers a possible testing ground. Looking at the experience in Belgium, France and Italy, a number of...

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