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trading restrictions in the interbank foreign exchange (FX) market for Japanese banks during the Tokyo lunch period. Ito … of the Tokyo lunch period. Moreover, we document that the standard variance-ratio methodology inference in this high …
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this view. The evidence comes from the introduction of trading in Tokyo over the lunch-hour. Lunch return variance doubles … private value is transitory. Finally, the morning exhibits a clear U-shape when Tokyo closes over lunch, and it disappears …
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/settlement price for the day. Major fixings occur at 9:55 am Tokyo time for transactions between Japanese banks and their customers … provision at the fixing time is larger than other times, which makes the price impact of any trade smaller. At the Tokyo fixing … liquidity at the Tokyo fixing as well, such financial institutions had announced prices to be more favorable for banks up until …
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In analyzing the dynamics of Tokyo housing price, we have compiled annual micro data sets from individual listings in a … regressions give estimates of price and rent increases in the last 11 years in Tokyo. According to these estimates, prices …
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Economists have traditionally viewed futures prices as fully informative about future economic activity and asset prices. We argue that open interest could be more informative than futures prices in the presence of hedging demand and limited risk absorption capacity in futures markets. We find...
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When excess returns are used to estimate linear stochastic discount factor (SDF) models, researchers often adopt a normalization of the SDF that sets its mean to 1, or one that sets its intercept to 1. These normalizations are often treated as equivalent, but they are subtly different both in...
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We present a model in which some investors are prohibited from using leverage and other investors' leverage is limited by margin requirements. The former investors bid up high-beta assets while the latter agents trade to profit from this, but must de-lever when they hit their margin constraints....
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We study stock returns over the period of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 and identify three crisis "shock factors" related to unique features of the crisis: (1) the collapse of global demand, (2) the contraction of credit supply, and (3) selling pressure on firms' equity. All three of...
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A plot of expected returns versus betas obeys virtually no relation to an inefficient index portfolio's mean-variance location. If the index portfolio is inefficient, then the coefficients and R- squared from an ordinary-least-squares regression of expected returns on betas can equal essentially...
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We propose two metrics for asset pricing models and apply them to representative agent models with recursive preferences, habits, and jumps. The metrics describe the pricing kernel's dispersion (the entropy of the title) and dynamics (time dependence, a measure of how entropy varies over...
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