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We present evidence that the funding liquidity aggregates of U.S. financial intermediaries forecast exchange rate … 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 …
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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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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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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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We show that nearly 100 percent of the U.S. equity premium is earned over a window around the opening hours of European markets when U.S. cash markets are closed. We explore two potential complementary explanations. First, consistent with predictions from dealer inventory risk models, we find...
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The financial crisis provides a natural experiment for testing theoretical predictions of the equity underwriter’s role following an initial public offering. Clients of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Wachovia saw their stock prices fall almost 5 percent, on average, on the...
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This paper shows that the risk-bearing capacity of U.S. securities brokers and dealers is a strong determinant of risk premia in commodity markets. Commodity derivatives are the principal instrument used by producers and consumers of commodities to hedge against commodity price risk....
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foundation for a funding liquidity channel in a global banking model where exchange rates fluctuate as a function of banks ….S. dollar funding liquidity forecasts exchange rates because of its association with time-varying risk premia. Our empirical …
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Banks hold liquid and illiquid assets. An illiquid bank that receives a liquidity shock sells assets to liquid banks in … the market equilibrium is constrained inefficient, with too little liquidity and inefficient hoarding. Our model features … a precautionary as well as a speculative motive for hoarding liquidity, but the inefficiency of liquidity provision can …
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