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We study the effects of low short-term interest rates on the optimal portfolio allocation in Markowitz portfolios and Risk parity portfolios. We propose a measure of Portfolio Instability, gauging the amount of optimal portfolio shifts needed to respond to exogenous shocks to the expected risk...
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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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The financial crisis has highlighted the need for models that can identify counterparty risk exposures and shock transmission processes at the systemic level. We use the euro area financial accounts (flow of funds) data to construct a sector-level network of bilateral balance sheet exposures and...
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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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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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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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information (data collection and processing) and communication (relationships and distribution). Both follow historic trends … towards an increased use of hard information and less inperson interaction, which are accelerating rapidly. We point to more …
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models containing news shocks. This paper shows how to formally evaluate the information content of observed variables with …
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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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expectational terms, thus assuming agents to bear on the uncertainty of future exchange rate changes and inflation dynamics. The …
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