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appeal to these investors. The effect of the widened liquidity gap on transactions costs is further amplified by a surge in … the price liquidity providers charge for access to their balance sheets in the crisis …
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We test the effects of uncertainty on market liquidity using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. Given the …
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This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in … long time. -- liquidity trap ; financial crisis ; rare disasters ; equity capital ; leverage ; bankruptcy risk …
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We formalize the idea that the financial sector can be a source of non-fundamental risk. Households' desire to hedge against price volatility can generate price volatility in equilibrium, even absent fundamental risk. Fearing that asset prices may fall, risk-averse households demand safe assets...
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central bank. Focusing on government bonds, we develop clean identification of variation in such convertibility by exploiting … differential treatment of same-country government bonds in the euro area. Combining difference-in-differences analysis with yield …
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credit spreads during 2002-2012: a liquidity regime and a default regime. Both regimes contribute to the patterns observed in … credit spreads. The liquidity regime seems to explain the predictive power of credit risk on the 2007-2009 NBER recession …
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institutions during the resolution of a financial crisis. First, we examine how Morgan coordinated emergency liquidity infusions … applicants for liquidity had participated in earlier bond underwriting syndicates with Morgan. The single denial of aid was to an … distinguishable effect during the Panic on the prices of bonds underwritten by his syndicates. We find that during the Panic bond …
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Recent calculations have suggested that the German federal government has saved roughly EUR 90-100 billion, cumulatively, due to low bond yields since the onset of the Euro crisis. In order to determine the contribution of the "flight to quality" to this sum, we define the flight to quality as a...
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CAT bonds are important instruments for the insurance of catastrophe risk. Due to a low degree of deal standardization …, there is uncertainty about the determination of the CAT bond premium. In addition, it is not apparent how CAT bonds react … Katrina an increased risk perception for hurricanes can be observed. -- CAT bonds ; financial crisis ; catastrophe events …
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This article examines the joint dynamics of volatility-volume relation in the high-yield (junk) corporate bond market during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. I propose a new empirical model of three-stage equations to better estimate the volatility-volume relation that helps in alleviating...
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