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, which is more pronounced for higher maturities and when risk aversion proxied by bond market volatility is high. Going …
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This paper examines equilibrium price relationships and price discovery between credit defaul swap (CDS), bond, and … equity markets for emerging market sovereign issuers. Findings suggest that CDS and bond spreads converge despite various … bond and CDS markets and the equity markets. As for price discovery, our results are mixed. This stands in contrast to the …
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interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall …
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Credit spreads rise after a monetary policy tightening, yet spread reactions are heterogeneous across firms. Exploiting information from a panel of corporate bonds matched with balance sheet data for U.S. non-financial firms, we document that firms with high leverage experience a more pronounced...
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Investors seek to hedge against interest rate risk by taking long or short positions on bonds of different maturities. We study changes in risk taking behavior in a low interest rate environment by estimating a market stochastic discount factor that is non-linear and therefore consistent with...
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growth, inflation, and monetary policy, and an inflation surprise could require monetary policy to tighten faster than …
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Over the past year, euro area sovereign spreads have exhibited an unprecedented degree of volatility. This paper …
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The paper shows how-in a Merton-type model with bankruptcy-the currency composition of debt changes the risk profile of a company raising a given amount of financing, and thus affects the cost of debt. Foreign currency borrowing is cheaper when the exchange rate is positively correlated with the...
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-term liquidity effects, where monetary costs act as transaction costs and the quantity theory of money is verified …
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Commodities are back following a stellar run of price performance, attracting financial investor attention. What are the fundamental reasons to hold commodities? One reason is the exposure offered to underlying risk factors. In this paper, I assess the macro risk exposure offered by commodity...
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