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Prior to the recent financial crisis, one of the most prominent examples of unconventional monetary stimulus was Japan … effects were overwhelmed by the contractionary forces in Japan's post-bubble economy. In the spirit of Kashyap and Stein (2000 … lending of a key element of QEP, the Bank of Japan's injections of liquidity into the interbank market. We identify a robust …
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We show that US investors obtain substantial foreign exposure through their holdings of domestic equities. Domestic multinationals, in particular, provide significant foreign exposure. We also find that, although the average US investor is less tilted toward domestic multinationals,...
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We find substantial herding in U.S. corporate bonds among bond fund managers, much higher than that previously documented for the equity market. Herding is generally stronger among illiquid bonds, and buy herding and sell herding are driven by different factors. In particular, sell herding...
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This paper uses a unique dataset of audit trail transactions to examine the trading behavior of market makers in the Treasury bond futures market when Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) faced binding margin constraints in 1998. Although identities are concealed in the dataset, I find strong...
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Most microstructure models assume that market makers are uninformed and that they trade competitively. However, empirical evidence about market makers' trading behavior is still relatively scant. This paper uses a unique audit trail transactions dataset to investigate the trading behavior of...
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Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the …
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This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …
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This paper describes and decomposes wage differences between female and male workers. The results indicate that females receive low wages because of unequal pay within sectors, and that the wage gap caused by the difference in sectoral attainment is small. The results also reveal that a lion’s...
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