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.58%, is attributed to other risk natures of CAT bonds. Lastly, the liquidity premium increases dramatically after occurrences …
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We analyze whether bond investors price tail risk exposures of financial institutions using a comprehensive sample of bond issuances by U.S. financial institutions. Although primary bond yield spreads increase with an institutions' own tail risk (expected shortfall), systematic tail risk...
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A sovereign debt crisis can have significant knock-on effects in the financial markets and put financial stability at risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm...
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applying insurance theory is useful. We model risk neutral agents choosing portfolios of government bonds of n countries in a …
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We apply the Diebold-Yilmaz connectedness index methodology on sovereign credit default swaps (SCDSs) to estimate the network structure of global sovereign credit risk. In particular, using the elastic net estimation method, we separately estimate networks of daily SCDS returns and volatilities...
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the liquidity spread of municipal bonds, and this relationship was stronger during the Lehman crisis. Using Hurricane … Sandy as an exogenous shock to the financial health of insurers, we find that the municipal bonds held by insurers, who … further find that insurers affect the liquidity spreads of municipal bonds by affecting the pure liquidity cost and …
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We examine the benefits of bond insurance to taxpayers using comprehensive data over three decades. We employ multiple modelling approaches to account for the selection into insurance parametrically and non-parametrically. Controlling for fundamentals and the choice to insure, insurers with Aaa...
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I examine how liquidity risk affects municipal bond pricing. Liquidity has become a central concern to municipal bond investors, issuers, and regulators since the recent collapse of the monoline municipal bond insurers. The results show that liquidity risk had a minimal effect on yield spreads...
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