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The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-09 confirmed the vital importance of advancing our understanding of macrofinancial linkages, the two-way interactions between the real economy and the financial sector. The crisis was a bitter reminder of how sharp fluctuations in asset prices, credit and...
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bubble, traders drive the price above its fundamental value in a dynamic way, driven by rational expectations about future … price developments. At a previously unknown date, the bubble will endogenously burst. We provide a general condition for the …
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previous volatility, scarce liquidity, high quantity exchanged, and stop-loss (SL) orders (seldom mentioned in the literature … volatility, liquidity, and SL orders as the main causes of excess volatility. However, contrary to mainstream literature on …
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a mechanism for discovering dark liquidity. We quantify its role in the price formation process in a model of the … dynamics of price and segmented order flow induced by the protocol. We find that the dark liquidity pool generally contains … liquidity providers to guard against adverse price movements than as a channel to hide private information. …
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In this paper we survey the theoretical and empirical literatures on market liquidity. We organize both literatures …
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During the recent financial crisis, there was a dramatic spike, across all industries, in the volatility of individual firm share prices after adjustment for movements in the market as a whole. In this Article, we demonstrate that a similar spike has occurred with each major downturn in the...
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We show that cross-border financial flows arise when countries differ in their abilities to use assets as collateral. Financial integration is a way of sharing scarce collateral. The ability of one country to leverage and tranche assets provides attractive financial contracts to investors in the...
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By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....
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We present evidence that shocks to household consumption growth are negatively skewed, persistent, countercyclical, and drive asset prices. We construct a parsimonious model where heterogeneous households have recursive preferences. A single state variable drives the conditional cross-sectional...
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This paper addresses the relationship between stock markets and credit default swaps (CDS) markets. In particular, I aim to gauge if the co-movement between stock prices and sovereign CDS spreads increases with the deterioration of the credit quality of sovereign debt. The analysis of...
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