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We explain why central counterparties (CCPs) emerged historically. With standardized contracts, it is optimal to insure counterparty risk by clearing those contracts through a CCP that uses novation and mutualization. As netting is not essential for these services, it does not explain why CCPs...
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The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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credit spreads during 2002-2012: a liquidity regime and a default regime. Both regimes contribute to the patterns observed in … credit spreads. The liquidity regime seems to explain the predictive power of credit risk on the 2007-2009 NBER recession …
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Arbitrage and liquidity are interrelated. Liquidity facilitates arbitrageurs’ trading on deviations from the law of one … price. However, whether arbitrage opportunity leads to an increase or decrease in liquidity depends on the cause of the … deviation. A demand shock leads to greater liquidity, while asymmetric information is toxic to liquidity. We examine how …
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basis size is closely related to measures of company-specific credit risk and liquidity, and to market conditions. In … risk, liquidity, and market measures even more strongly than the basis itself, and we show which conditions make long and …
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This paper examines the impact of option listing in the NASDAQ equity market on the bid-ask spread of the underlying stock. We find that both the market adjusted percentage and dollar spreads decrease with option listing, which is consistent with a value enhancing impact of derivative security...
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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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This paper studies the effects of financial speculation on commodity futures returns, using publicly available data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, aggregated by trader groups. We exploit the heteroskedasticity in the weekly data to identify exogenous variation in speculators'...
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