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returns and the equity variance premium. We evaluate a plethora of state-of-the-art volatility forecasting models to produce …
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This paper examines the effects of monetary policy on the equity values of European banks. We identify monetary policy shocks by looking at changes in the EONIA one-month and two-year swap contract rates during narrow windows around the press statements and press conferences announcing monetary...
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-term interest rates to the Bank of England's inflation report and to macroeconomic announcements. Due to the quarterly frequency at … which the Bank of England releases one of its main publications, it can become stale over time. In the course of this … predicts that, the more time has elapsed since the latest release of an inflation report, market volatility should increase …
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-varying consumption volatility risk is essential for obtaining the inversion of the real curve and allows to price the average level and …
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We study the prices that individual banks pay for liquidity (captured by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank … and benchmarked by the overnight index swap) as a function of market conditions and bank characteristics. These prices …
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We show that the liquidation value of collateral depends on who is pledging it. We employ transaction-level data on overnight repurchase agreements (repo) and loan-level credit registry data on corporate loans. We find that borrowers on the repo market pay a 2.6 basis points rate premium when...
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We examine international stock return comovements using country-industry and country-style portfolios as the base portfolios. We first establish that parsimonious risk-based factor models capture the covariance structure of the data better than the popular Heston- ouwenhorst (1994) model. We...
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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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speculative trading increases. As a result, market liquidity deteriorates and short-term volatility rises. Our findings hold for a …
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In this paper we examine the quantitative effects of margin regulation on volatility in asset markets. We consider a … of collateral constraints leads to strong excess volatility. Thus, a regulation of margin requirements may have … in the regulation of one class of assets may have only small effects on these assets' return volatility if investors have …
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