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This paper builds on the landmark contribution of Glosten (1994) by treating the determination of limit order supply schedules as an exercise in asset pricing theory with the possible sizes of incoming market orders as the value-relevant states of nature, yielding an analogue of the Fundamental...
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Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …
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We characterize the price-transparency role of benchmarks in over-the-counter markets. A benchmark can, under … dealers and customers, and reducing search costs. Although the market transparency promoted by benchmarks reduces dealers …
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Natural catastrophes often have catastrophic risks on insurance companies as well as on the insured. Using a very large dataset on homeowners%u2019 insurance coverage by state, by firm, and by year for the 1984 to 2004 period, this paper documents the positive effect on losses and loss ratios of...
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Given the cross-sectional and temporal variation in their liquidity, emerging equity markets provide an ideal setting … to examine the impact of liquidity on expected returns. Our main liquidity measure is a transformation of the proportion … of zero daily firm returns, averaged over the month. We find that our liquidity measures significantly predict future …
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Market liquidity is modeled as being determined by the demand and supply of immediacy. Exogenous liquidity events … coupled with the risk of delayed trade create a demand for immediacy. Market makers supply immediacy by their continuous … the number of market makers adjusts to equate the supply and demand for immediacy. This determine the equilibrium level of …
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How did the Subprime Crisis, a problem in a small corner of U.S. financial markets, affect the entire global banking system? To shed light on this question we use principal components analysis to identify common factors in the movement of banks' credit default swap spreads. We find that fortunes...
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In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
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We consider a model of liquidity demand arising from a possible maturity mismatch between asset revenues and … consumption. This liquidity demand can be met with either cash reserves (inside liquidity) or via asset sales for cash (outside … liquidity). The question we address is, what determines the mix of inside and outside liquidity in equilibrium? An important …
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