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Treasury auctions and secondary market dynamics : an analysis based on the MTS market for Italy
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2015
Auctions of government bonds are the main allotment method used by the Treasury of advanced economies. Previous research has found that auctions have an influence on the market yield days before they take place, and underpricing is usually spotted when their outcome is compared with...
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Investors' trading behaviour and stock market volatility during crisis periods : a dual long-memory model for the Korean stock exchange
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Karanasos, Menelaos; Yfanti, … - 2019
This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis … on volatility that depends on the type of investor trading and on the phase of the business cycle. Buy orders appear to … be more informative than sell orders since they mostly lower volatility in the pre-crisis periods, while sell and post …
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Have Capital Market Anomalies Worldwide Attenuated in the Recent Era of High Liquidity and Trading Activity?
Auer, Benjamin R.; Rottmann, Horst - 2018
We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has significantly decreased exploitable returns of capital market anomalies in the US. Using a novel international dataset of arbitrage portfolio returns for four well-known...
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Dynamic trading and asset prices : Keynes vs. Hayek
Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2009
We investigate the dynamics of prices, information and expectations in a competitive, noisy, dynamic asset pricing equilibrium model. We show that prices are farther away from (closer to) fundamentals compared with average expectations if and only if traders over- (under-) rely on public...
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Higher order expectations, illiquidity, and short-term trading
Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2011
We propose a theory that jointly accounts for an asset illiquidity and for the asset price potential over-reliance on public information. We argue that, when trading frequencies differ across traders, asset prices reflect investors' Higher Order Expectations (HOEs) about the two factors that...
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Expectation dispersion, uncertainty, and the reaction to news
Born, Benjamin; Dovern, Jonas; Enders, Zeno - 2020
Releases of key macroeconomic indicators are closely watched by financial markets. We investigate the role of expectation dispersion and economic uncertainty for the stock-market reaction to indicator releases. We find that the strength of the financial market response to news decreases with the...
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An empirical model of daily highs and lows
Cheung, Yin-Wong (contributor) - 2006
We construct an empirical model for daily highs and daily lows of US stock indexes based on the intuition that highs and lows do not drift apart over time. Our empirical results show that daily highs and lows of three main US stock price indexes are cointegrated. Data on openings, closings, and...
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High and low activity spells in housing markets
Smith, Eric - 2015
This paper demonstrates the way in which stock-flow matching with endogenous seller entry generates hot and cold spells in house sales. Potential sellers know the number of bidders remaining from the last house sale. If two or more bidders remain, the seller obtains the gains to trade through...
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Volume and volatility in the FX-market : does it matter who you are?
Bjønnes, Geir H.; Rime, Dagfinn; Solheim, Haakon - 2002
The relationship between volume and volatility has received much attention in the the literature of financial markets … the impact of volume on volatility in the the FX-market using a unique data set of daily trading in the Swedish krona (SEK … depict a positive correlation with volatility. However, the strength of the relationship depends on the instrument used and …
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An empirical analysis of legal insider trading in the Netherlands
Degryse, Hans; Jong, Frank de; Lefebvre, Jérémie - 2009
In this paper, we employ a registry of legal insider trading for Dutch listed firms to investigate the information content of trades by corporate insiders. Using a standard event-study methodology, we examine short-term stock price behavior around trades. We find that purchases are followed by...
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