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This paper examines market liquidity in the post-crisis era in light of concerns that regulatory changes might have reduced dealers' ability and willingness to make markets. We begin with a discussion of the broader trading environment, including an overview of regulations and their potential...
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Do regulations decrease dealer ability to intermediate trades? Using a unique data set of dealer-bond-level transactions, we link changes in liquidity of individual U.S. corporate bonds to dealers’ transaction activity and balance sheet constraints. We show that, prior to the financial crisis,...
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We estimate the cost of capital for the banking industry and find that while the cost of capital soared for banks in the financial crisis, after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the value-weighted cost of capital for banks fell differentially more than did the cost of capital for nonbanks. The...
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This paper examines the effects of the Federal Reserve’s Term Auction Facility (TAF) on the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR). The particular question investigated is whether the announcements and operations of the TAF are associated with downward shifts of the LIBOR; such an association...
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approach allows computationally fast estimation of term structure models with a large number of pricing factors. Even though we … structure of interest rates with small pricing errors compared to commonly reported specifications, both in and out …
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; congestion ; asset pricing …
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estimate prices of risk using a cross-sectional asset pricing approach and show that U.S. dollar funding liquidity forecasts … liquidity channel in an intertemporal equilibrium pricing model where the “risk appetite” of dollar-funded intermediaries … the more familiar “carry trade” channel. -- Asset pricing ; financial intermediaries ; exchange rates …
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yield curves. The model features stochastic covariation of inflation with the real pricing kernel, enabling us to extract a … ; asset pricing ; monetary policy …
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This paper assesses the microstructure of the U.S. Treasury securities market, using newly available tick data from the BrokerTec electronic trading platform. Examining trading activity, bid-ask spreads, and depth for on-the-run two-, three-, five-, ten-, and thirty-year Treasury securities, we...
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We develop a new likelihood-based approach to signing trades in the absence of quotes. This approach is equally efficient as the existing Markov-chain Monte Carlo methods, but more than ten times faster. It can address the occurrence of multiple trades at the same time and allows for analysis of...
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