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This paper examines the impact of stock liquidity on firm bankruptcy risk. Using the Securities and Exchange Commission … decimalization regulation as a shock to stock liquidity, we establish that enhanced liquidity decreases default risk. Stocks with the … highest default risk experience the largest improvements. We find two mechanisms through which stock liquidity reduces firm …
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increases as trade size increases. We also identify a few liquidity trends: measures like average daily volumes, average price …
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Traditional liquidity measures can provide a false impression of the liquidity and stability of financial market … show that a standard measure of liquidity, the effective bid-ask spread, dramatically underestimates the true cost of …
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Based on an empirical analysis of European corporations, we investigate the impact of sovereign risk on the pricing of corporate credit risk. In our paper, we show that sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) are positively correlated with corresponding corporate CDS spreads and are a significant...
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This paper examines the dynamic relationship between credit risk and liquidity in the sovereign bond market in the … context of the European Central Bank (ECB) interventions. Using a comprehensive set of liquidity measures obtained from a … risk, as measured by the Italian sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spread, generally drive the liquidity of the market: a …
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I use the 2007-2008 financial crisis to gauge how internal financial resources and external financial constraints mitigate or worsen the impact of the crisis on default risk of US industrial firms. I identify heterogeneity in short-term funding needs at the onset of the crisis by exploiting...
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transaction costs of liquidity, credit risk, and other traditional bond pricing factors. Further, information asymmetry can help …
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Standard credit risk models cannot explain the observed clustering of default, sometimes described as "credit contagion." This paper provides the first empirical analysis of credit contagion via direct counterparty effects. We examine the wealth effects of bankruptcy announcements on creditors...
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There is a close link between prices of equity options and the probability of default of a firm. We show that in the presence of positive expected equity recovery, the standard methods that assume zero equity recovery at default misestimate the probability of default implicit in option prices....
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