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Slow-moving capital cannot fully explain the 2005 and 2008 arbitrage crashes in theconvertible bond market. Faced with …
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Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of size and cross-border investment activity, the region's markets are reputed to be more “idiosyncratic” and less reliant on economic and corporate fundamentals in their...
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This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of assetbacked securities (ABS) based on …
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If regulation fails to differentiate between priced and idiosyncratic risk, it incentivizes investors to reach for yield. Studying securitization exposures on the balance sheets of German banks, I show evidence consistent with this prediction. Banks with tight regulatory constraints (low capital...
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If there were no impediments to the flow of capital across space, then the returns to capital should be equalized. We provide evidence to the contrary. There are large differences in the return to comparable investments across different towns in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India. We explore...
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arbitrage crashes and failure of systemically important intermediaries during the global financial crisis. Intermediaries pledge … productive capital as repo collateral to fund the margin for their arbitrage positions. A tiny drop in the market liquidity of … movements and losses. This further reduces the collateral value of arbitrage portfolios and triggers more fire-sales in both …
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