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default swap using a cointegration approach. We demonstrated the existence of a cointegrating relationship between those two …
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We show that liquidity risk is priced in the cross section of returns on credit default swaps (CDSs). We measure CDS … CDS spreads; on average, liquidity risk accounts for 24% of CDS spreads. Consistent with recent models of intermediary … asset pricing, illiquidity and risk premia correlate negatively with proxies for the risk-bearing capacity of CDS market …
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This paper empirically analyses the effect of foreign block acquisitions on the U.S. target firms' credit risk as …
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themselves. In turn, the adoption of a risk-sharing guarantee fund structure would provide a natural disciplinary mechanism for …
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dissipating local risk premiums. Integration of the sovereign bond markets increases by about 10% on average, when a country moves … inflation risk, and lower illiquidity. The 10% increase in integration leads to, on average, a decrease in the sovereign cost of …
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We introduce a new class of momentum strategies, the risk-adjusted time series momentum (RAMOM) strategies, which are … how these volatility measures can be used for risk management. We find that momentum risk management significantly … increases Sharpe ratios, but at the same time may lead to more pronounced negative skewness and tail risk. Furthermore, momentum …
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investors value carbon risk disclosure. Through a survey and empirical tests, we conclude that many institutional investors … consider climate risk reporting to be as important as financial reporting. However, systematic variation exists in their …
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We introduce a class of quantile-based risk measures that generalize Value at Risk (VaR) and, likewise Expected … probability of occurrence. The corresponding risk measure, called Loss VaR (LVaR), determines the minimal capital injection that … and applications to capital adequacy, portfolio risk management and catastrophic risk are presented …
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Do credit ratings help enforce market discipline on banks? Analyzing a uniquely comprehensive dataset consisting of 1,081 rating change announcements for 154 international financial institutions between January 2004 and December 2015, we find that rating downgrades for internal reasons, such as...
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Firms with credit-default swaps (CDS) traded on their debt may face "empty creditors'' as hedged creditors have less incentive to participate in firm restructuring. We test for the existence of empty creditors by employing an exogenous change to the bankruptcy code in Germany, that effectively...
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