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We study the informational channel of financial contagion in the laboratory. In our experiment, two markets with correlated fundamentals open sequentially. In both markets, subjects receive private information. Subjects in the market opening second also observe the history of trades and prices...
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Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, theserelationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high-frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....
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reduce the funding liquidity risk of global institutions. …
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We examine the relationship between monetary policy operations and interbank borrowing and lending of funds using sovereign bonds as collateral. We first establish that, in the precrisis period, there are important but rather weak relations between these funding sources and that this...
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a mechanism for discovering dark liquidity. We quantify its role in the price formation process in a model of the … dynamics of price and segmented order flow induced by the protocol. We find that the dark liquidity pool generally contains … liquidity providers to guard against adverse price movements than as a channel to hide private information. …
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Treasury security issue size and liquidity. Treasury bills that were first issued with fifty-two weeks to maturity and then … given maturity) than when they are off-the-run, and persists when controlling for other factors that affect liquidity. The … liquidity benefits of reopenings are more than offset by the direct supply costs. …
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This paper examines a comprehensive set of liquidity measures for the U.S. Treasury market. The measures are analyzed …. The price impact coefficients are highly correlated with bid-ask spreads and with episodes of reported poor liquidity … other liquidity measures, as do yield spreads between on-the-run and off-the-run securities. In contrast, trading volume and …
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We characterize the microstructure of the market for Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) using novel tick data from the interdealer market. We find a marked difference in trading activity between on-the-run and off-the-run securities, as in the nominal Treasury securities market. We...
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Dealers, who strategically supply liquidity to traders, are subject to both liquidity and adverse selection costs …. While liquidity costs can be mitigated through inter-dealer trading, individual dealers' private motives to acquire … information compromise inter-dealer market liquidity. Post-trade information disclosure can improve market liquidity by …
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The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to trillions more in variable-rate mortgage and student loans....
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