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attempts to quantify the impact of STT imposition and subsequent revisions on volatility and trading volume during Oct 2003 …-July 2013. Empirical results show a mixed response of volatility and volume to changes in STT. Even though STT has …
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We study the real-time characteristics and drivers of jumps in option prices. To this end, we employ high frequency data from the 24-hour E-mini S&P 500 options market. We find that option prices do not jump simultaneously across strikes and maturities and are uncorrelated with jumps in the...
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discuss the relations between the results obtained and the phenomenon of ”volatility-induced growth” in stationary markets. …
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. In this paper, we extend the literature on risk allocation games by incorporating liquidity considerations. A liquidity … policy specifies state-dependent liquidity requirements that a portfolio should obey. To comply with the liquidity policy, a … liquidity constraints is not straight- forward, since the presence of a liquidity policy leads to externalities. We argue that …
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We endogenize the liquidity and the quality of private assets in a tractable incomplete-market model with heterogeneous … agents. The model decomposes the convenience yield of government bond into a "liquidity premium" (flight to liquidity) and a … and bond premiums, the model reveals that a sharp reduction in the quality, instead of the liquidity, of private assets …
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While empirical literature has documented a negative relation between default risk and stock returns, the theory suggests that default risk should be positively priced. We provide an explanation for this "default anomaly", by calculating monthly probabilities of default (PDs) for a large sample...
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The analysis of credit risk and its impacting factors are important topics for the European Investment Fund (EIF, the Fund) as the Fund provides guarantees to financial institutions for portfolios of loans and leases to micro- and small and medium sized-enterprises (SMEs). In this context, the...
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During the Great Recession, the collapse of consumption across the U.S. varied greatly but systematically with house-price declines. We find that financial distress among U.S. households amplified the sensitivity of consumption to house-price shocks. We uncover two essential facts: (1) the...
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This paper investigates the forecasting performance of three popular variants of the non-linear GARCH models, namely VS-GARCH, GJR-GARCH and Q-GARCH, with the symmetric GARCH(1,1) model as a benchmark. The application involves ten European stock price indexes. Forecasts produced by each...
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The identification of the forces that drive stock returns and the dynamics of their associated volatilities is a major concern in empirical economics and finance. This analysis is particularly relevant for determining optimal hedging strategies based on whether shocks to the volatilities of...
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