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Asset allocation and risk taking under different interest rate regimes

Hermans, Lieven; Kostka, Thomas; Vassallo, Danilo - 2023

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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International equity flows and returns

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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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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Financial intermediation and technology : what's old, what's new?

Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Hoffmann, Peter; Laeven, Luc; … - 2020

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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Are asset price data informative about news shocks? : a DSGE perspective

Iskrev, Nikolay - 2018

models containing news shocks. This paper shows how to formally evaluate the information content of observed variables with …

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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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A VAR analysis for the uncovered interest parity and the ex-ante purchasing power parity : the role of macroeconomic and financial information

Macchiarelli, Corrado - 2011

expectational terms, thus assuming agents to bear on the uncertainty of future exchange rate changes and inflation dynamics. The …

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Foreign-currency bonds : currency choice and the role of uncovered and covered interest parity

Habib, Maurizio Michael; Joy, Mark - 2008

Using count-data techniques, this paper studies the determinants of currency choice in the issuance of foreign-currency-denominated bonds. In particular, we investigate whether bond issuers choose their issuance currency in order to exploit the borrowing-cost savings associated with deviations...

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