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Overlapping portfolios constitute a well-recognised source of risk, providing a channel for financial contagion induced … security-by-security basis from historical daily traded volumes and price returns. Systemic risk within the euro area financial … heterogeneous price impact parameters. Another new feature in this work is the application of a price-at-risk measure instead of the …
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One important source of systemic risk can arise from asset commonality among financial institutions. This indirect … portfolios. In this work, we propose a methodology to quantify systemic risk derived from asset commonality and we apply it to … systemic risk originating from asset commonality. The novel indicator proves to be consistent with other indicators of systemic …
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I study the causal effect of bond investor demand on the financing and investment decisions of nonfinancial firms using granular data on the bond transactions of U.S. insurance companies. Liquidity inflows from insurance premiums combined with insurers’ persistent investment preferences...
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We propose a new model of trading in OTC markets. Dealers accumulate inventories by trading with end-investors and trade among each other to reduce their inventory holding costs. Core dealers use a more efficient trading technology than peripheral dealers, who are heterogeneously connected to...
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We study the dynamics of a Lucas-tree model with finitely lived agents who "learn from experience." Individuals update expectations by Bayesian learning based on observations from their own lifetimes. In this model, the stock price exhibits stochastic boom-and-bust fluctuations around the...
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This paper examines the out‐of‐sample forecast performance of sectoral stock market indicators for real GDP, private consumption and investment growth up to 4 quarters ahead in the US and the Euro Area. Our findings are that the predictive content of sectoral stock market indicators: i) is...
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Market participants often invest in order to acquire information that pertains to the market itself (e.g. order flow) rather than to fundamentals. This enables them to infer more information from past trades. I show that agents trading on such information, typically high-frequency traders,...
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We study empirically how competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs) affects their trading behavior and market quality. Our analysis exploits a unique dataset, which allows us to compare environments with and without high-frequency competition, and contains an exogenous event - a tick size...
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-pricing theory to estimate this implicit price in the data and find that the optimal tax is pro-cyclical. It is therefore optimal to … generates large welfare gains, it also reduces risk premiums and raises the average risk-free real rate. The effect of the tax …
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We show that a reduction in lender of last resort (LOLR) policy uncertainty positively affects bank lending and propagates to investment and employment. We exploit a unique policy that reduced uncertainty regarding the availability of future LOLR funding for banks as a quasi-natural experiment....
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