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During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...
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liquidity position. Finally, it investigates whether the idiosyncratic risk is priced in BRICS countries’ equity markets. The …
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We investigate the effects of introducing a central clearing counterparty (CCP) on securities prices by adopting as an experimental construct the 2009 CCP reform in three Nordic markets. We find that, relative to other European economies, these countries experience market-adjusted equity returns...
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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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This paper studies how market-wide credit risk affects the liquidity pricing in the bond market. With the emerging wave … increases the effectiveness of price discovery in China's capital market. As liquidity concern starts to play a nontrivial role …
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finding stands in stark contrast to corporate bond markets. Third, traders charge higher premiums as a price for liquidity … dealers for demanding liquidity. Last, inventory risk seems to matter little in explaining liquidity premiums. …
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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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to proxy illiquidity. We show that transaction costs were low and comparable to today's costs. Liquidity was negatively … correlated with active informed trading, particularly being low for small and distressed stocks and in crises times. Liquidity …
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This research presents evidence for the existence of differences in asset beta risk in the liquidity cross-section of … assets due to correlated trading. It is argued that due to differences in liquidity or cost, most trading activity is …
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In this paper we examine whether the UK closed-end country fund discounts are related to the illiquidity of the UK fund or the illiquidity of the country the fund invests in. We also consider whether emerging market country funds behave differently in terms of their discount and illiquidity to...
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