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Investor fears and risk premia for rare events
Schwarz, Claudia - 2014 - This version: January 13, 2014
This paper uses the method developed by Bollerslev and Todorov (2011b) to estimate risk premia for extreme events for the US and the German stock markets. The method extracts jump tail measures from high-frequency futures price data and from options data. In a second step, jump tail...
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High-frequency trading in the Bund futures market
Schlepper, Kathi - 2016
In this work, I study the impact of high-frequency trading (HFT) on price discovery and volatility in the Bund futures market. Using a new dataset based on microseconds, the focus of the study is on the reaction of high-frequency traders (HFTs) to major macroeconomic news events. I show that...
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The time-varying impact of systematic risk factors on corporate bond spreads
Klein, Arne Christian; Pliszka, Kamil - 2018
During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...
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What is the value of retail order flow?
Hoffmann, Peter; Jank, Stephan - 2024
This paper uses regulatory data to assess the value of retail order flow in the German equity market. To this end, we examine the performance of specialized retail market makers (RMMs) that internalize a large share of retail activity via affiliated trading venues. We show that retail market...
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Securities lending and information acquisition
Greppmair, Stefan; Jank, Stephan; Saffi, Pedro A. C.; … - 2024
Using microdata on stock-level lending positions from German mutual funds, we show that active funds use the equity lending market to obtain information about short sale demand. Funds reduce long positions in response to these demand signals, which allows fund managers to front-run public...
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The price impact of CDS trading
Gündüz, Yalın; Nasev, Julia; Gehde-Trapp, Monika - 2013
In this paper we show that informational and real frictions in CDS markets strongly affect CDS premia. We derive this … main finding using a proprietary set of individual CDS transactions cleared by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation …. We first show that CDS traders adjust the CDS premium in response to the observed order flow. Buy orders lead to an …
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Market transparency and the marking precision of bond mutual fund managers
Cici, Gjergji; Gibson, Scott; Gündüz, Yalın; … - 2014
mutual fund managers before and after initiations of TRACE and introductions of issuers into Markit’s CDS database …
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Credit risk interconnectedness : what does the market really know?
Abbassi, Puriya; Brownlees, Christian; Hans, Christina; … - 2016
We analyze the relation between market-based credit risk interconnectedness among banks during the crisis and the associated balance sheet linkages via funding and securities holdings. For identification, we use a proprietary dataset that has the funding positions of banks at the bank-to-bank...
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The determinants of CDS spreads : evidence from the model space
Pelster, Matthias; Vilsmeier, Johannes - 2016
default swaps (CDS). Our study focuses on the complete model space of plausible models covering most of the variables and … transparency and robustness for the empirical study at hand. Using a large data-set of CDS contracts we find that CDS price …
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Inflation anchoring in the euro area
Speck, Christian - 2016
Did the decline in inflation rates from 2012 to 2015 and the low levels of market-based inflation expectations lead to de-anchored inflation dynamics in the euro area? This paper is the first time-varying event study to investigate the reaction of inflation-linked swap (ILS) rates - a...
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