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The aim of this study is to develop a general equilibrium framework linking real estate prices to the real economy. The model is evaluated in terms of its ability to explain: (i) the high volatility of residential real estate prices, (ii) the fact that commercial real estate prices are more...
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This article presents an overview of research on the Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets. We begin by summarizing the institutional features of FX trading and describe how they have evolved since the 1980s. We then explain how these features are represented in microstructure models of FX...
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bond market liquidity. In order to stabilize these markets, policy makers recently proposed that the trading of corporate … only if it is feasible for him to also affect market liquidity, by either increasing or decreasing it. …
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This paper investigates whether investors are compensated for taking on commonality risk in equity portfolios. A large literature documents the existence and the causes of commonality in illiquidity, but the implications for investors are less understood. We find a return premium for commonality...
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assets are likely to serve as media of exchange or collateral (a definition of liquidity often employed in monetary theory …), or that they can be easily sold in a secondary market, if needed (a definition of liquidity closer to the one adopted in … finance)? We develop a model where these two notions of asset liquidity coexist, and their relative importance is determined …
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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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It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...
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In this paper, we construct a quality-adjusted rent index for the office market in Oslo. Commonly used rent indices are based on average developments or expert opinions. Such indices often suffer from compositional biases or low data coverage. Using detailed data from more than 16,000 rental...
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We study the effects of securitization on renegotiation of distressed residential mortgages over the current financial crisis. Unlike prior studies, we employ unique data that directly observe lender renegotiation actions and cover more than 60% of the U.S. mortgage market. Exploiting...
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