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Treasury securities normally possess unparalleled safety and liquidity and, consequently, carry a money premium. We use … the money premium, safety, and liquidity. Our results shed light on Treasury market dynamics specifically, and debt more …. Meanwhile, changes in liquidity only affected the money premium during the impasses. Next, we show that Treasury safety and …
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Market liquidity is expected to facilitate arbitrage, which in turn should affect the liquidity of the assets traded by … that liquidity is an important determinant of the efficacy of the ETF arbitrage. For less liquid bond ETFs, Granger …-causality tests and impulse responses suggest that this relationship is stronger and more persistent, and liquidity spillovers are …
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We find that firm-level variance risk premium, estimated as the difference between option-implied and expected variances, has a prominent explanatory power for credit spreads in the presence of market- and firm-level risk control variables identified in the existing literature. Such a...
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our finding that creditor recovery rates increase with duration for roughly 1½ years following default, but decrease … default. Moreover, the default duration of almost half of our sample is well outside the optimal default duration implied by …
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controlling for standard risk factors. Liquidity deteriorates on FTS days both in the bond and equity markets. Both economic …
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We document a robust positive relationship between the belief dispersion about macroeconomic conditions among household investors and the stock market trading volume, using more than 30 years of household survey data and a novel approach to measuring belief dispersions. Notably, such a...
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, trading costs increase strongly with dealer centrality. Investors with strong liquidity need trade with central dealers and at … times of market-wide illiquidity. Central dealers thus serve as liquidity providers of last resort …
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Does expansionary monetary policy drive up prices of risky assets? Or, do investors interpret monetary policy easing as a signal that economic fundamentals are weaker than they previously believed, prompting riskier asset prices to fall? We test these competing hypotheses within the U.S....
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We exploit detailed transaction and position data for a sample of long-short equity hedge funds to study the trading activity of fundamental investors. We find that hedge funds exhibit skill in opening positions, but that they close their positions too early, thereby forgoing about a third of...
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We propose a method to decompose stock returns period by period. First, we argue that one can directly estimate expected stock returns from securities available in modern financial markets (using the real yield curve and the Martin (2017) equity risk premium). Second, we derive a return...
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