Stock market makers are afraid that informed insiders will take advantage of them in trade. To protect themselves, they may increase the bid-offer spread to include a fee for the adverse selection risk . If set correctly, market makers will share in profits from others trading on private...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the impacts that rare disasters can have on credit markets. We discuss and quantify the asset-pricing implications of disaster risk on the risk-free rate, credit spreads, and their term structures. The findings underscore the heterogeneous effects of...

This paper examines whether and how differences in investors' information environment are related to cross-country differences in the market risk premium volatility. We use the vector-autoregressive and implied cost of capital methods to extract time variation in risk premiums for 41 developed...

I empirically show that underpricing of uniform-price U.S. Treasury auctions is explained by risk premia. I posit that intermediaries demand a risk premium to offset future secondary market price uncertainty, in which uncertainty is captured by treasury auction return volatility, which is...

Treasury securities normally possess unparalleled safety and liquidity and, consequently, carry a money premium. We use recent debt limit impasses, which temporarily increased the riskiness of Treasuries, to investigate the relationship between the money premium, safety, and liquidity. Our...

This paper studies how market-wide credit risk affects the liquidity pricing in the bond market. With the emerging wave of China's bond defaults, the illiquidity premium is observed only after the first bond default, and it becomes significantly larger with the rising market-wide credit risk. In...

Economic policy drives investment, production, employment, and other macroeconomic indicators of the economy. The study examines the equity, commodity, interest rates, and currency markets, taking into consideration the US economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index. The present work determines the...

Employing time series of single-name CDS market spreads from 29 European banks located in the EU-12 plus Switzerland and the UK over the period from January 2004 through September 2010 this paper analyses the relationship between increasing sovereign risk and bank-specific CDS pricing. Results...

Following the upset of the financial crisis, and especially after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Governments in advanced economies have provided support to the fi nancial sector to help restoring its normal functioning and to avoid the widening of the meltdown. Banking CDS premia climbed from...

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...