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The emergence and future of central counterparties

Koeppl, Thorsten V.; Monnet, Cyril - 2010

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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Trading the bond-CDS basis: The role of credit risk and liquidity

Trapp, Monika - 2009

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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Option Introduction and Liquidity Changes in the OTC/NASDAQ Equity Market

Fortin, Rich; Maese, Judy - In: Journal of Small Business Finance 2 (1992) 1, pp. 39-52

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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Jumps in option prices and their determinants: Real-time evidence from the E-mini S&P 500 option market

Kapetanios, George; Neumann, Michael; Skiadopoulos, George - 2014

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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Identifying speculative demand shocks in commodity futures markets through changes in volatility

Hachula, Michael; Rieth, Malte - 2017

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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Causality between arbitrage and liquidity in platinum futures

Iwatsubo, Kentaro; Watkins, Clinton - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 12, pp. 1-17

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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Impact Of Proposed Commodity Transaction Tax On Futures Trading In India

Sahoo, Pravakar; Kumar, Rajiv - 2008

cost and liquidity, and a positive relationship between transaction cost and volatility. Therefore, if the government … imposes CTT, it would lead to higher volatility and lower trading activity affecting market efficiency and liquidity. However …

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Impact of transaction taxes on commodity derivatives trading in India

Ray, Saon; Malik, Neha - 2014

Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk management in the commodities market. A transaction tax (of 0.01 per cent) on commodity futures trading was introduced in the Union Budget 2013-14. This study examines the rationale...

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The value of tradeability

Chesney, Marc; Kempf, Alexander - 2011

This paper determines the value of asset tradeability in an option pricing framework. In our model, tradeability is valuable since it allows investors to exploit temporary mis-pricings of stocks. The model delivers several novel insights on the value of tradeability: The value of tradeability is...

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Restructuring counterparty credit risk

Albanese, Claudio; Brigo, Damiano; Oertel, Frank - 2013

credit and debit valuation adjustments (CVA and DVA). Depending on how the default contingency is accounted for, we list a …

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