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-varying correlation between the aggregate stock market and government bonds, (ii) the use of bond factors for multifactor asset pricing … models and forecasting bond and stock returns, (iii) the Fisher effect and inflation, and (iv) the betas of corporate bonds …
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Banks are optimally opaque institutions. They produce debt for use as a transaction medium (bank money), which requires that information about the backing assets - loans - not be revealed, so that bank money does not fluctuate in value, reducing the efficiency of trade. This need for opacity...
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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 … large investment grade bond trades, relative to before the crisis, and are better for all bond types and trade sizes …-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 analyze the effect of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy on EME sovereign and corporate bond markets by … focusing on two dimensions: the evolution of the structure (size and currency composition) of the bond markets and their … allocations within the bond portfolios of US investors. Global factors, particularly the level of long-term US Treasury yields …
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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 …
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important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper presents a detailed study of this phenomenon in the corporate bond … of bond and issuer controls, including bond liquidity and duration, and issuer fixed effects. This behavior is related to …
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Using a novel data of institutional investors' bond holdings, we examine a transmission of the crisis of 2007-2008 from … the securitized bond market to the corporate bond market via joint ownership of these bonds by investors. We posit that … greater portions of their corporate bond holdings and in particular lower-rated bonds. In contrast, insurance companies sold …
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frictions regarding cross-asset segmentation. We find that actively-managed equity funds and corporate bond funds linked within … accentuate the importance of collaboration between equity funds and bond funds within fund families.Institutional subscribers to …
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Hedge fund managers are compensated via management fees on the assets under management (AUM) and incentive fees indexed to the high-water mark (HWM). We study the effects of managerial skills (alpha) and compensation on dynamic leverage choices and the valuation of fees and investors' payoffs....
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Many financial instruments are designed with embedded leverage such as options and leveraged exchange traded funds (ETFs). Embedded leverage alleviates investors' leverage constraints and, therefore, we hypothesize that embedded leverage lowers required returns. Consistent with this hypothesis,...
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