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We study IPOs by focusing on the degree of portfolio diversification of the shareholders taking the company public. We argue that a less diversified shareholder has more to gain from taking the company public and would be more willing to accept a lower price for the sale of its shares, i.e....
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a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for market … actual downgrade and reversing sharply thereafter. We show that a measure of liquidity risk faced by corporate bond market … portion of this excess co-movement. Additional robustness checks suggest that this relationship between the liquidity risk …
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liquidity, especially for stocks with small market capitalization, high volatility and no listed options; (ii) slowed down price …
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, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing … so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral constraint limits their positions as a function of capital. We show that … markets, liquidity in each market generally becomes less volatile, but the reverse may hold for aggregate liquidity because of …
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This paper examines the extent to which individual investors provide liquidity to the stock market, and whether they … predict short-term future returns is significantly enhanced during times of market stress, when market liquidity provisions … uncertainty. Despite this high aggregate performance, individual investors do not reap the rewards from liquidity provision …
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The 2005 inclusion of Fitch ratings in the Lehman composite index ratings provides a quasi-natural experiment to identify rating-based market segmentation in the corporate bond market. Split-rated bonds with favorable Fitch rating that were mechanically upgraded to investment-grade status...
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liquidity provision by hedge funds to noise traders to rationalize our findings, and empirically verify auxiliary predictions of …
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, trading costs increase strongly with dealer centrality. Investors with strong liquidity need trade with central dealers and at … times of market-wide illiquidity. Central dealers thus serve as liquidity providers of last resort. …
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more sensitive to a liquidity-risk factor. Our results imply that information asymmetry has a substantial effect on asset … prices and that a primary channel linking asymmetry to prices is liquidity. …
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-the-run securities over the entire on/off cycle. Unlike previous studies, by comparing pairs of securities as their relative liquidity … varies over time, we can disregard any cross-sectional differences between the securities. Also, since the liquidity of … Treasury notes varies predictably over time we are able to distinguish between current liquidity and expected future liquidity …
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