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depth, and improved price efficiency.Moreover, slow traders become more competitive in liquidity provision and price …
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The financial crisis provides a natural experiment for testing theoretical predictions of the equity underwriter's role following an initial public offering. Clients of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Wachovia saw their stock prices fall almost 5 percent, on average, on the day...
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Credit derivatives are the latest in a series of innovations that have had a significant impact on credit markets. Using a micro data set of individual corporate loans, this paper explores whether use of credit derivatives is associated with an increase in bank credit supply. We find evidence...
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Banks hold liquid and illiquid assets. An illiquid bank that receives a liquidity shock sells assets to liquid banks in … the market equilibrium is constrained inefficient, with too little liquidity and inefficient hoarding. Our model features … a precautionary as well as a speculative motive for hoarding liquidity, but the inefficiency of liquidity provision can …
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We present evidence that the funding liquidity aggregates of U.S. financial intermediaries forecast U.S. dollar … foreign currencies. We provide a theoretical foundation for a funding liquidity channel in a simple asset pricing model where … estimate prices of risk using a cross-sectional asset pricing approach and show that U.S. dollar funding liquidity forecasts …
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stock prices, but significantly increased costs of liquidity. In August 2011, the U.S. market experienced a large decline …
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Although China now has one of the largest government bond markets in the world, the market has received relatively little attention and analysis. We describe the history and structure of the market and assess its functioning. We find that trading in individual bonds was historically sparse but...
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observable differences, including rating, financial performance, industry, bond characteristics, liquidity and issuance timing …
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Ratios that indicate the statistical significance of a fund's alpha typically appraise its performance. A growing literature suggests that even in the absence of any ability to predict returns, holding options positions on the benchmark assets or trading frequently can significantly enhance...
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Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, these relationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high-frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....
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