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This paper (i) proposes a simple multi-currency model of speculative foreign exchange (FX) trading, (ii) uses a natural experiment to identify the implied components of the optimal trading strategy, and (iii) proposes a new spectral inference method to strengthen the statistical evidence on the...
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This paper empirically analyses the effect of foreign block acquisitions on the U.S. target firms' credit risk as captured by their CDS. The involvement of foreign investors leads to a significant increase in the target firms' CDS spreads. This effect is stronger when foreign owners are...
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A growing literature uses the Russell 1000/2000 reconstitution event as an identification strategy to investigate corporate finance and asset pricing questions. To implement this identification strategy, researchers need to approximate the ranking variable used to assign stocks to indexes. We...
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We investigate whether the Russia-Ukraine conflict has affected investors' assessment concerning a green energy transition. Based on a global energy sector sample, we apply an event study around the invasion on February 24, 2022. We find that energy firms' CAAR are positive around the event....
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Traditional liquidity measures can provide a false impression of the liquidity and stability of financial market … show that a standard measure of liquidity, the effective bid-ask spread, dramatically underestimates the true cost of …
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We find that the degree and dynamics of sovereign bond market integration across 21 developed and 18 emerging countries is significantly heterogeneous. We show that better spanning can significantly enhance market integration through dissipating local risk premiums. Integration of the sovereign...
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measure proposed by Amihud (2002). In our model, both price volatility and market liquidity are assumed to follow stochastic … processes in continuous time. In this setting, characterized by stochastic volatility and liquidity, we prove that the realized … Amihud provides a precise measurement of the inverse of integrated liquidity over fixed-length periods (e.g., a day, a week …
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This paper presents the first comprehensive examination of liquidity in the global foreign exchange (FX) swap market … main findings: First, FX swap liquidity is fragmented across currencies, tenors, and time. Second, liquidity conditions …
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The paper studies the effect of growing mutual fund and ETF ownership on the commonality in liquidity of underlying … bonds. Unpredictable liquidity needs of funds may give rise to correlated trading across underlying illiquid bonds. I … document that there is a positive and significant relationship between ETF ownership and liquidity commonality of investment …
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theoretical results with parameter magnitudes and sensitivities. Examination of three market liquidity scenarios provides … intuition for effective liquidity injection by a Lender of Last Resort …
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