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Albuquerque, Rui; Bauer, Gregory H.; Schneider, Martin - 2004

This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...

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Competition among high-frequency traders, and market quality

Breckenfelder, Johannes - 2019

We study empirically how competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs) affects their trading behavior and market quality. Our analysis exploits a unique dataset, which allows us to compare environments with and without high-frequency competition, and contains an exogenous event - a tick size...

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High frequency trading and fragility

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2017

We show that limited dealer participation in the market, coupled with an informational friction resulting from high frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity consumption decisions: traders demand more liquidity...

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It's not time to make a change : sovereign fragility and the corporate credit risk

Fornari, Fabio; Zaghini, Andrea - 2022

Relying on a perspective borrowed from monetary policy announcements and introducing an econometric twist in the traditional event study analysis, we document the existence of an "event risk transfer", namely a significant credit risk transmission from the sovereign to the corporate sector after...

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Central bank asset purchases and auction cycles revisited : new evidence from the euro area

Ferrara, Federico M. - 2024

This study provides new evidence on the relationship between unconventional monetary policy and auction cycles in the euro area. Using proprietary data on purchases of public sector securities implemented by the Eurosystem, the paper examines the flow effects of asset purchase programmes on...

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Collateral booms and information depletion

Asriyan, Vladimir; Laeven, Luc; Martin, Alberto - 2019

We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to … themselves from such diversion in two ways: collateralization and costly screening, which generates durable information about … accumulates physical capital but depletes information about investment projects. As a result, collateral-driven booms end in deep …

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Stock market firm-level information and real economic activity

Di Mauro, Filippo; Fornari, Fabio; Mannucci, Dario - 2011

financial information leads to a significant improvement in forecasting business cycle developments in four economic areas, at … cross sectional stock market information to macro-prudential aims through an economic Value at Risk. - Business cycle …

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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

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Does it pay to have the euro? : Italy's politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2009

There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutions are fundamental for a country's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 has helped insulate Italy's financial...

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The stock market reaction to the 2005 non-tradable share reform in China

Beltratti, Andrea; Bortolotti, Bernardo; Caccavaio, Marianna - 2011

During 2005-2006, the Chinese government implemented a reform aimed at eliminating the so-called non-tradable shares (NTS), shares typically held by the State or by politically connected institutional investors that were issued at the early stage of financial market development. Our analysis,...

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