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We examine the impact of reported insider trading on market liquidity, as measured by an order-size-dependent volume …-weighted spread measure, which is called Xetra liquidity measure (XLM). This relationship is scrutinized for the German market both in … very active, most likely to hide their information based trading in higher trading volumes. We discover that the liquidity …
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Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded … at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has … long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment of liquidity risk is still under development. This paper provides …
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We examine the relation between market liquidity and ownership concentration and the effect of different types of … blockholders on stock market liquidity in Germany. For the overall sample high ownership concentration is negatively related to … market liquidity as measured by an order-size-dependent volume-weighted spread measure, which is called Xetra liquidity …
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In an attempt to match US bankruptcy law, many European countries have reformed their insolvency laws towards a regime that fosters corporate restructuring. This paper evaluates the implications of these reforms. Based on a staggered difference-in-differences analysis around eight insolvency...
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Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded … at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has … long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment of liquidity risk is still under development.This paper provides an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870300
We analyse to what extent the accrual anomaly is related to the choice of the accounting system as well as firm-level heterogeneity in corporate governance mechanisms. Using a unique dataset of listed German firms over the period 1995 to 2005 we first corroborate former results indicating that...
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Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor … in risk management. Literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value … benchmarked. This paper performs comparative back-tests of daily risk forecasts for a large selection of traceable liquidity risk …
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It has been frequently discussed, that returns are not normally distributed. Liquidity costs, measuring market … liquidity, are similarly non-normally distributed displaying fat tails and skewness. Liquidity risk models either ignore this …, parametric approach based on the Cornish-Fisher approximation to account for non-normality in liquidity risk. We show how to …
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We analyse whether family firms differ from non-family firms in terms of business segment and geographical diversification or the application of currency hedging instruments. This analysis is based on a unique dataset of 339 publicly listed companies (1,561 firm years) in the German Prime...
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We integrate liquidity risk measured by the weighted spread into a Value-at-Risk (VaR) framework. The weighted spread … measure extracts liquidity costs by order size from the limit order book. We show that it is precise from a risk perspective … find liquidity risk to increase traditionally-measured price risk by over 25%, even at standard 10-day horizons and for …
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