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Agency mortgage backed securities (MBS) with diverse characteristics are traded in parallel with individualized contracts in the specified pool (SP) market and with standardized contracts in the to-be-announced (TBA) market. We find that this unique parallel trading environment significantly...
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This paper explores liquidity spillovers in market-capitalization-based portfolios of NYSE stocks. Return, volatility …, and liquidity dynamics across the small- and large-cap sectors are modeled by way of a vector autoregression model, using … data that spans more than 3,000 trading days. We find that volatility and liquidity innovations in one sector are …
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more highly correlated; moreover, at these times, money supply positively affects financial market liquidity, albeit with a … lag of two weeks. During normal times, increases in mutual fund flows enhance stock market liquidity and trading volume …, but during financial crises, U.S. government bond funds see higher inflows, resulting in increased bond market liquidity …
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This paper explores liquidity movements in stock and Treasury bond markets over a period of more than 1800 trading days …. Cross-market dynamics in liquidity are documented by estimating a vector autoregressive model for liquidity (that is, bid … in one market affects the spreads in both markets, and that return volatility is an important driver of liquidity …
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forward markets. We study the consequences of this fragmentation, showing that market liquidity endogenously concentrated in … increased the liquidity and prices of Freddie Mac MBS without measurably reducing liquidity for Fannie Mae; this was in part … to the consolidation event, in anticipation of future liquidity. Consolidation increased Freddie Mac’s fee income by …
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liquidity shock. Dealers provided liquidity by increasing both their long cash and short forward positions significantly, but … subject to Basel III liquidity regulations increased their positions more than others. The basis narrowed by about $0 … combined liquidity constraints of investors and dealers led to severe price dislocations, and the Fed, in its role as the …
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