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The paper investigates the relationship between the investment holding horizon and liquidity. I confirm and expand … short period carry more of liquidity risk. This means that short term investors load on liquidity risk when making …
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central bank. Focusing on government bonds, we develop clean identification of variation in such convertibility by exploiting … differential treatment of same-country government bonds in the euro area. Combining difference-in-differences analysis with yield …
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Traditional liquidity measures can provide a false impression of the liquidity and stability of financial market … show that a standard measure of liquidity, the effective bid-ask spread, dramatically underestimates the true cost of …
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within the framework of a dynamic general equilibrium asset-pricing model. Equilibrium bond portfolios are nonsensical …
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We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm … issue bonds. We also demonstrate that, by changing the cost of financing, these characteristics affect the timing of …
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We document an inverse relation between stock-bond correlations and correlations of growth and inflation. We find that rising inflation uncertainty lowers stock prices but can either lower or raise nominal bond prices depending on whether inflation is counter- or procyclical. We show that the...
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Oil price changes fail to predict asset returns because they are too noisy. We construct an oil trend factor that filters out noise and provide evidence that it predicts bond risk premia well. This result holds in developed and emerging countries, both in sample and out of sample. Notably, the...
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largest capital market for state and municipal issuers. Prior research has documented tax, credit, liquidity, and segmentation … effects in municipal bonds. Recent regulatory initiatives to improve transparency have made granular trade data available to … researchers, rendering it a natural laboratory to study financial intermediation, asset pricing in decentralized markets, and …
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We show that the difference between the natural rate of interest and the current level of monetary policy stance, which we label Convergence Gap (CG), contains information that is valuable for bond predictability. Adding CG in forecasting regressions of bond excess returns significantly raises...
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I filter expected inflation, unemployment and log GDP Hodrick-Prescott filtered series in order to extrapolate different frequencies of shocks. These shocks are then regressed on contemporaneous yields to assess the impact of monetary policy ingredients on the current state of the economy....
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