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This paper examines the role of bond ratings and the effects of rating-based regulations in thecorporate bond market. Exploiting an unanticipated mechanical change in how the benchmarkLehman bond indices are constructed in 2005, we show that rating-induced market segmentationof the bond market...
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The misevaluation of risk in securitized financial products is central to understanding the financial crisis of 2007 - 8. This paper characterizes the evolution of factors affecting collateralized debt obligations based on subprime mortgages. A key feature of subprime-mortgage backed indices is...
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, pointing to an inherent liquidity problem. The paper concludes with comments on the interactions between the three aspects. …
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liquidity and stability examined. Particularly, the effects of (i) a ban on short selling (ii) a mandatory risk limit, i.e. a … and liquidity constraints leading to fire sales. In its unregulated version the model outcome is capable of reproducing …
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through which foreign institutional investors influence the liquidity on the Chinese stock markets. Firstly, we find that … market participation by foreign institutional investors promotes liquidity both for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non …-SOEs. Secondly, foreign institutions influence liquidity through the informational frictions channel, but not through the real …
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Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor … in risk management. Literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value … benchmarked. This paper performs comparative back-tests of daily risk forecasts for a large selection of traceable liquidity risk …
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It has been frequently discussed, that returns are not normally distributed. Liquidity costs, measuring market … liquidity, are similarly non-normally distributed displaying fat tails and skewness. Liquidity risk models either ignore this …, parametric approach based on the Cornish-Fisher approximation to account for non-normality in liquidity risk. We show how to …
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changes in financial intermediaries' balance sheets for the supply of credit, liquidity and asset prices, and, consequently …
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This paper develops a liquidity measure tailored to the foreign exchange (FX) market, quanties the amount of … commonality in liquidity across dierent exchange rates, and determines theextent of liquidity risk premiums embedded in FX returns …. The new liquidity measure utilizesultra high frequency data and captures cross-sectional and temporal variation in FX …
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We recently experienced a global financial crisis so severe that only massive rescue operations by governments around the world prevented a total financial market meltdown and perhaps another global Great Depression. One necessary precondition for the crisis was the perverse, bonus-driven...
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