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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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Return differences between DAX ETFs and the benchmark DAX
Schmidhammer, Christoph - 2021
For the DAX index market, this paper analyses the development of return differences between exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the DAX index from the perspective of long-term investors. The newly introduced methodology provides the opportunity to continuously identify long-term costs of passively...
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Who trades on momentum?
Baltzer, Markus; Jank, Stephan; Smajlbegovic, Esad - 2014
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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Unleashing animal spirits : self-control and overpricing in experimental asset markets
Kocher, Martin; Lucks, Konstantin; Schindler, David - 2018
One explanation for overpricing on asset markets is a lack of traders' self-control. Self-control is the individual capacity to override or inhibit undesired impulses that may drive prices. We implement the first experiment to address the causal relationship between self-control abilities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899248
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Procyclical asset management and bond risk premia
Barbu, Alexandru; Fricke, Christoph; Mönch, Emanuel - 2020
Institutional funds have concentrated ownership by a few institutional investors, infrequent outflows and essentially no leverage. Yet using unique granular data on the bond holdings of institutional funds, we show that their trading behavior is strongly procyclical: they actively move into...
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How do investors' expectations drive asset prices?
Lüders, Erik; Peisl, Bernhard - 2001
stochastic volatility of asset prices and to give theoretical arguments for empirically well documented facts. We show that … stochastic volatility. …
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Asymmetric volatility clustering, risk-return relationship and day of the week effects : evidence from nineteen stock markets
Balaban, Ercan; Bayar, Aslı; Kan, Özgür Berk - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001399859
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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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Monetary policy and stock market volatility
Bleich, Dirk; Fendel, Ralf; Ruelke, Jan-Christoph - 2013
implicit volatility by a decrease in the interest rate. We take our results as strong evidence that central banks use interest …
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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 … price discovery compared to Non-HFTs, but also add a higher share to noise than to permanent volatility. Moreover, I find … evidence that HFTs tend to supply less liquidity after an unexpected rise in market volatility and prior to upcoming …
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