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between traders, when suppliers of liquidity do not sufficiently disclose their trade intentions. As a result, hidden … liquidity can increase trading costs and induce excess price fluctuations unrelated to information. Using NASDAQ order book data …, we find strong empirical support and illustrate that hidden liquidity is higher if bid-ask spreads are smaller and …
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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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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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This paper analyzes how newly introduced transparency requirements for short positions affect investors' behavior and security prices. Employing a unique data set, which contains both public positions above and confidential positions below the regulatory disclosure threshold, we offer several...
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This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns, within a wide range of advanced economies, over the different phases of the recent financial crisis. The adopted empirical framework is a bivariate volatility model, where...
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Overconfidence is one of the most important biases in financial markets and commonly associated with excessive trading and asset market bubbles. So far, most of the finance literature takes overconfidence as a given, "static" personality trait. In this paper we introduce a novel experimental...
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We study efficiency properties of competitive economies in which banks provide liquidity insurance and interact on …
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We study the impact of transparency on liquidity in OTC markets. We do so by providing an analysis of liquidity in a … the U.S., the determinants of German corporate bond liquidity are in line with search theories of OTC markets. Third ….S. Our results support the notion that, while market liquidity is generally higher in transparent markets, a subset of bonds …
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Using a unique data set that contains the complete ownership structure of the German stock market, we study the momentum and contrarian trading of different investor groups. Foreign investors and financial institutions, and especially mutual funds, are momentum traders, whereas private...
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We analyze the impact of market liquidity on bank lending in the euro area for different segments over the period 2003 … to 2016. Our results on the aggregate level show that market liquidity is positively related to loan volumes and … liquidity has an asymmetric effect on bank lending: The negative impact of a reduction in liquidity is more significant than the …
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