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What to expect from the lower bound on interest rates : evidence from derivatives prices

Mertens, Thomas M.; Williams, John C. - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of the lower bound for interest rates on the distributions of expectations for future inflation and interest rates. We study a stylized New Keynesian model where the policy instrument is subject to a lower bound to motivate the empirical analysis. Two equilibria...

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LIBOR : origins, economics, crisis, scandal, and reform

Hou, David; Skeie, David - 2014

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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Trading risk and volatility in interest rate swap spreads

Kambhu, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this relationship in the behavior of interest rate swap spreads and in the volume and interest rates of repurchase contracts. Specifically, we focus on convergence trading, in which...

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An analysis of OTC interest rate derivatives transactions : implications for public reporting

Fleming, Michael J.; Jackson, John; Li, Ada; Sarkar, Asani - 2012

This paper examines the over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivatives (IRD) market in order to inform the design of post-trade price reporting. Our analysis uses a novel transaction-level data set to examine trading activity, the composition of market participants, levels of product...

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A sampling-window approach to transactions-based libor fixing

Duffie, Darrell; Skeie, David; Vickery, James - 2013

We examine the properties of a method for fixing Libor rates that is based on transactions data and multi-day sampling windows. The use of a sampling window may mitigate problems caused by thin transaction volumes in unsecured wholesale term funding markets. Using two partial data sets of loan...

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Money, credit, monetary policy, and the business cycle in the euro area : what has changed since the crisis?

Giannone, Domenico; Lenza, Michele; Reichlin, Lucrezia - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between the business cycle and financial intermediation in the euro area. We establish stylized facts and study their stability during the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis. Long-term interest rates have been exceptionally high and...

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CDS and equity market reactions to stock issuances in the U.S. financial industry : evidence from the 2002-13 period

Cornett, Marcia Millon; Mehran, Hamid; Pan, Kevin; … - 2014

We study market reactions to seasoned equity issuances that were announced by financial companies between 2002 and 2013. To assess the risk and valuation implications of these seasoned equity issuances, we conduct an event analysis using daily credit default swap (CDS) and stock market pricing...

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Bank complexity, governance, and risk

Correa, Ricardo; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2020

Bank holding companies (BHCs) can be complex organizations, conducting multiple lines of business through many distinct … legal entities and across a range of geographies. While such complexity raises the costs of bank resolution when …, liquidity management, and synergy improvements that reduce risk. The outcomes of such trade-offs may depend on bank governance …

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Bank holding company dividends and repurchases during the financial crisis

Hirtle, Beverly J. - 2014

Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as …

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The shadow banking system : implications for financial regulation

Adrian, Tobias; Shin, Hyun Song - 2009

The current financial crisis has highlighted the growing importance of the “shadow banking system,” which grew out of the securitization of assets and the integration of banking with capital market developments. This trend has been most pronounced in the United States, but it has had a...

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