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The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...
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The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pros and cons of fair-value accounting (FVA). This debate presents a major challenge for FVA going forward and standard setters' push to extend FVA into other areas. In this article, we highlight four important issues as an...
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factors and liquidity. Our analysis confirms the existence of a long-run relationship between the two markets, and the … CDS markets becoming more sensitive to systematic risk while cash bond markets priced in more information about liquidity …
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This paper offers a new framework for the assessment of financial market liquidity and identifies two types: search … liquidity and systemic liquidity. Search liquidity, i.e. liquidity in “normal” times, is driven by search costs required for a … trader to find a willing buyer for an asset he/she is trying to sell or vice versa. Search liquidity is asset specific …
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This paper presents the most extensive analysis of liquidity in the German equity market so far. We examine the … evolution of liquidity over time, the determinants of liquidity, and commonality across liquidity measures and countries. We … make use of a new publicly available dataset, the Market Microstructure Database Xetra (MMDB-Xetra). We find that liquidity …
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changes in financial intermediaries' balance sheets for the supply of credit, liquidity and asset prices, and, consequently …
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We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has … characterised by positive trends in liquidity, there is no persuasive time-series and cross-sectional evidence for a negative link … between anomalies in market returns and liquidity. Thus, this proxy of arbitrage activity does not appear to be a key factor …
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We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has … characterised by positive trends in liquidity, there is no persuasive time-series and cross-sectional evidence for a negative link … between anomalies in market returns and liquidity. Thus, this proxy of arbitrage activity does not appear to be a key factor …
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We study the relationship between foreign exchange trading activity and volatility on the USD/EUR foreign exchange market on the basis of a unique data set around the events of 09/11/2001. We find that volatility and bid-ask spreads are by far larger at that time, but the shock is not...
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. We exploit this quasi{ natural experiment to investigate the impact this change had on liquidity and trading behavior …
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