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We investigate the trading of corporate bonds on alternative trading system (ATS) platforms. We draw a key distinction between request-for-quote (RFQ) and electronic communication network (ECN) trading protocols, which balance investors' preference for immediacy and anonymity. Trades on ATS...
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We use a unique data set from the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) to study liquidity e ffects in the US … structured product market. Our main contribution is the analysis of the relation between the accuracy in measuring liquidity and … provide guidance for improving transparency while maintaining trader confidentiality. In addition, we analyze liquidity in the …
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This paper looks at the dynamic price relationship between spreads in the corporate bond market and credit default swaps (CDS). It picks up where Blanco et al (2005) leave off but is focused on European credit markets. The study is based on companies listed in the iTraxx CDS index and thus on...
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Corporate bond defaults in different sectors often increase suddenly at roughly similar times, although some sectors see default rates jump earlier than others. This could reflect contagion among sectors-specifically, defaults in one sector leading to credit stresses in other sectors of the...
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This article introduces a new approach for dealing with the diversification/concentration risk of fixed income assets. Because Government bonds, corporate bonds, and mortgage backed securities constitute a large proportion of the assets of institutional investors in most countries, it is...
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In this paper, we establish a comparison between one of the most traded financial derivatives in the markets, the so-called catastrophe bonds (abbreviated as cat bonds) and the corporate bonds. In the first section, we start from a brief definition as well as some basic concepts. In section two,...
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form models. Furthermore, our analysis provide evidence that bond yield spreads incorporate a substantial liquidity …
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bond market liquidity. In order to stabilize these markets, policy makers recently proposed that the trading of corporate … only if it is feasible for him to also affect market liquidity, by either increasing or decreasing it. …
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Loan and bond finance during 1985-2005 can be divided into three sub-periods. After the 1982 debt crisis, which mainly involved domestic and foreign bank loans to both the corporate and government sectors, there was practically no credit. This situation of lack of credit persisted until the...
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contributors and yield dispersion) to approximate corporatebond liquidity and use a five-variable model to control for maturity …, credit and currencydifferences between bonds. The null hypothesis that liquidity risk is not priced in our dataset of euro … corporate bonds is rejected for seven out of eight liquidity measures. We findsignificant liquidity premia, ranging from 9 to 24 …
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