Institutional investors have increased their allocation to private assets to capture a potential return premium over public assets and diversification benefits. However, an allocation to private assets, which typically are less liquid than public assets, raises questions: “How does an...

Recent regulation, mandating the clearing of credit default swaps (CDS) by a Central Clearing Counterparties (CCP), has rendered it's possible failure a serious threat to global nancial stability. This work investigates the potential failure of a CCP initiated by the default of a large dealer...

Recent regulatory reforms like the mandatory clearing of standardized swap contracts and mandatory trading on centralized execution platforms have significantly changed the derivatives landscape. These reforms have, in certain cases, led the market to increasingly trade on multilateral...

Following the 2008 financial crisis, regulation mandates the clearing of the CDS market through Central Clearing Counter-parties (CCPs). Large CCPs are now designated as 'Global Systemically Important Institutions' (GSIIs), whose unlikely-but-plausible failure threatens global financial market...

Recent regulation mandating the clearing of credit default swaps (CDS) by a Central Clearing Counterparties (CCP), has rendered the latter a systemically important institution, whose failure poses a serious threat to global financial stability. This work investigates the potential failure of a...

We present comprehensive evidence in support of giving liquidity equal standing to size, value/growth, and momentum as investment styles, as defined by Sharpe (1992). First, we show that financial market liquidity, as identified by stock turnover, is an economically significant indicator of...

Yes. Chung, Lee, and Rösch (2020) show that liquidity for large orders improves for the treated firms with larger tick sizes after the implementation of the Tick Size Pilot Program. Accordingly, we hypothesize and find that the increased tick sizes of treated firms reduce execution costs of...

This research analyses high-frequency data of the cryptocurrency market in regards to intraday trading patterns. We study trading quantitatives such as returns, traded volumes, volatility periodicity, and provide summary statistics of return correlations to CRIX (CRyptocurrency IndeX), as well...

We develop a model in which financially constrained arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies across segmented markets. We show that the dynamics of arbitrage capital are self-correcting: following a shock that depletes capital, returns increase, and this allows capital to be gradually...