Showing 1 - 10 of 263
The spread of COVID-19, containment measures, and general uncertainty led to a sharp reduction in activity in the first half of 2020. Europe was hit particularly hard-the economic contraction in 2020 is estimated to have been among the largest in the world-with potentially severe repercussions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518752
. Liquidity stress tests have been applied in parallel to and independently from solvency stress tests, based on scenarios which … testing of solvency and liquidity: our approach exploits the mechanisms underlying the solvency-liquidity nexus to derive … relations between solvency shocks and liquidity shocks. These relations are then used to model liquidity and solvency risk in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251907
The paper presents a framework to integrate liquidity and solvency stress tests. An empirical study based on European … bond trading data finds that asset sales haircuts depend on the total amount of assets sold and general liquidity … conditions in the market. To account for variations in market liquidity, the study uses Markov regime-switching models and links …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154762
This paper examines the drivers of liquidity shortages in the Mexican government bond market. We use unique transaction …- and quote level data with information on end-investors to construct an index of bond market liquidity. We find that … liquidity remained stable in recent years, although temporary shortages arose amid domestic and global market stress. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299390
Quantitative easing could improve market liquidity through many channels such as relaxing bank funding constraints …, increasing risk appetite, and facilitating trades. However, it can also reduce market liquidity when the increase in the central …) effects of the Bank of Japan (BOJ)'s JGB purchases on market liquidity. Moreover, we also find evidence that such scarcity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852598
This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging … evidence of an historical increase in market liquidity since the early 1990s, in part as a result of advances in international … financial integration, but markets have been increasingly exposed to global systemic liquidity shocks. Second, liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404263
We study the impact of the COVID-19 recession on capital structure of publicly listed U.S. firms. Our estimates suggest leverage (Net Debt/Asset) decreased by 5.3 percentage points from the pre-shock mean of 19.6 percent, while debt maturity increased moderately. This de-leveraging effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796218
shocks induced by the pandemic to their liquidity, viability and solvency. For this purpose, we develop novel multi … their debt, and on their liquidity and solvency positions. Applying the October 2020 WEO baseline and adverse scenarios, we … the initial shock as earnings recover in line with projected macroeconomic conditions, liquidity needs remain substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605125
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392538
This paper suggests a novel approach to assess corporate sector solvency risk. The approach uses a Bottom-Up Default Analysis that projects probabilities of default of individual firms conditional on macroeconomic conditions and financial risk factors. This allows a direct macro-financial link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704646