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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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We propose a novel measure of bond market liquidity that does not depend on transaction data: the strength of the cross … portfolio holdings to be at a given point in time. The perceived liquidity of speculative grade and Rule 144A bonds is …
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-Wicksellian model and then adds banks and a role for bonds in the liquidity management of households and banks. The Banks and Bonds …
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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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set of assets can be partitioned into three liquidity tiers, which differ in their resalability, their prices, their … a pecuniary externality, which leads to the result that some policies commonly thought to improve liquidity can be …
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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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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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This paper studies the interaction between fundamental and liquidity for defaultable corporate bonds that are traded in … liquidity, which depends on both the firm fundamental and the time-to-maturity of the bond. Corporate default decisions interact … with the endogenous secondary market liquidity via the rollover channel. A default-liquidity loop arises: Earlier …
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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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Empirical tests of reduced form models of default attribute a large fraction of observed credit spreads to compensation for jump-to-default risk. However, these models preclude a "contagion-risk'' channel, where the aggregate corporate bond index reacts adversely to a credit event. In this...
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