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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts
Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014
Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...
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A high frequency assessment of the ECB Securities Markets Programme
Ghysels, Eric; Idier, Julien; Manganelli, Simone; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380070
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Fast trading and the virtue of entropy : evidence from the foreign exchange market
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2019
Focusing on the foreign exchange reaction to macroeconomic announcements, we show that fast trading is positively and significantly correlated with the entropy of the distribution of quoted prices in reaction to news: a larger share of fast trading increases the degree of diversity of quotes in...
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Price effects of sovereign debt auctions in the euro-zone : the role of the crisis
Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo; Jong, Frank de; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195378
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Size Anomalies in U.S. Bank Stock Returns : A Fiscal Explanation
Gandhi, Priyank - 2010
The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …
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Asset prices and current account fluctuations in G7 economies
Fratzscher, Marcel; Straub, Roland - 2009
The paper analyses the effect of equity price shocks on current account positions for the G7 industrialized countries in 1974-2007. It uses a Bayesian VAR with sign restrictions for the identification of asset price shocks and to test empirically for their effect on current accounts. Such shocks...
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Assessing asset purchases within the ECB’s Securities Markets Programme
Eser, Fabian; Schwaab, Bernd - 2013
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Measuring the Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Asset Prices
Swanson, Eric T. - 2015
I adapt the methods of Gurkaynak, Sack, and Swanson (2005) to estimate two dimensions of monetary policy during the 2009-2015 zero lower bound period in the U.S. I show that, after a suitable rotation, these two dimensions can be interpreted as "forward guidance" and "large-scale asset...
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Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing
Chang, Yen-cheng - 2013
Studies find price increases for additions to the S&P 500 index but no decreases for deletions. Additions come with good earnings news, suggesting these studies are not just measuring an indexing effect. We develop a regression discontinuity design using Russell Indices for cleaner...
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Monetary Policy without Moving Interest Rates : The Fed Non-Yield Shock
Boehm, Christoph E.; Kroner, T. Niklas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Existing high-frequency monetary policy shocks explain surprisingly little variation in stock prices and exchange rates around FOMC announcements. Further, both of these asset classes display heightened volatility relative to non-announcement times. We use a heteroskedasticity-based procedure to...
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