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reduced-form models can explain sovereign spreads, while, consistent with flights to liquidity, illiquidity risk is relevant … particularly important during periods of market stress. These flights to liquidity are substantially more prominent at the shorter … that incorporate flights to liquidity need to be expanded to include the impact of such flights on both the level and slope …
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As the debt ceiling episode unfolds, we highlight a sharp increase in activity across the U.S. credit default swaps (CDS) market and infer the likelihood of a U.S. default from these market prices. Beginning in January 2023, we document a significant increase in U.S. CDS trading activity and...
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rates of return to compensate agents for their relative lack of liquidity. Consistent with empirical findings, our model …
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state to compensate agents for their relative lack of liquidity. Second, since the difference in the yield of short and long … liquidity. …
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The shape of the term structure of credit default swap spreads is an informative signal about the relative importance of global and domestic risk factors to the time variation of sovereign credit spreads. Using a geographically dispersed panel of 44 countries, I show that the relative importance...
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We study feedback from the risk of outstanding mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on the level and volatility of interest rates. We incorporate supply shocks resulting from changes in MBS duration into a parsimonious equilibrium dynamic term structure model and derive three predictions that are...
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The paper investigates the risky sovereign spreads and the CDS-Bond basis of a country following a fixed exchange rate under a Currency Board Arrangement (CBA). The particular monetary regime affects significantly the mechanics of the bond market and needs a special investigation. We start by...
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Changes in credit supply induce large and frequent variations in households' access to unsecured debt. They generate a novel financial precautionary motive, which compounds the classical motive associated with idiosyncratic income risk, as borrowers accumulate risk-free bonds to hedge against...
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spreads are usually attributed to differing default and liquidity risks. Recent research points out that time-varying global … rather their evaluation increased but lost relative importance compared to liquidity risks. -- Euro Area ; bond spreads … ; time-varying coefficients ; liquidity risk ; default risk …
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