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prices and standard measures of financial liquidity, such as bid-ask spreads, trade volume, and the incentives of dealers to … monetary policy as well as the microstructure of the market where it is traded. These liquidity considerations imply a positive … anomalous. The theory also exhibits rational expectations equilibria with recurring belief driven events that resemble liquidity …
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We study the efficiency of dealers' liquidity provision and the desirability of policy intervention in over …' asset demands that lasts until a random recovery time. In this context, dealers can provide liquidity to outside investors …
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on asset prices and financial liquidity. The theory predicts asset prices carry a speculative premium that reflects the … asset's marketability and depends on monetary policy and the market microstructure where it is traded. These liquidity …
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We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period … 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …
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In many countries, bankruptcy is associated with low recovery by creditors. We develop a model of corporate credit markets in such an environment. Corporate credit is provided by either a bond market or risk-averse banks. Restructuring of insolvent firms happens out of court if in-court...
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Price-based liquidity metrics are better in 2013-2014 for small trades and large high-yield bond trades, but not for … relative to 2010-2012. This evidence contrasts with the widely-held view among practitioners that liquidity has worsened …-crisis liquidity could be low when markets are stressed. We consider three stress events: extreme VIX increases, extreme bond yield …
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Our paper reports the following two findings: 1) In monthly data, bond purchases by the Fed raise bond prices and reduce bond yields. The residual bond-supply to traders is not fully predictable, and this supply-risk adds between 10 and 40 basis points to the standard deviation of the real...
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We study corporate bond default rates using an extensive new data set spanning the 1866-2008 period. We find that the corporate bond market has repeatedly suffered clustered default events much worse than those experienced during the Great Depression. For example, during the railroad crisis of...
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We study liquidity conditions in the corporate bond market during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of the … unprecedented interventions by the Federal Reserve. We find that, at the height of the crisis, liquidity conditions deteriorated … “lean against the wind” and bid-ask spreads declined. To study the causal impact of the interventions on market liquidity …
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