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Understanding the nature of credit risk has important implications for financial stability. Since authorities notably … difficulty lies in finding reliable measures of aggregate credit risk in the economy, as opposed to firmlevel credit risk. In … the type of risk priced in corporate bonds (i.e., credit or liquidity risk). However, although the two models provide …
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This paper reviews recent developments in macro and finance on the relationship between financial risk and the real …-term decline - in the variance risk premium, and time variation in conditional skewness. We also introduce two new data series …
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, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system …
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This paper presents some new results on the price discovery process in both the Canadian and U.S. 10-year Government bond markets using high-frequency data not previously analyzed. Using techniques introduced by Hasbrouck (1995) and Gonzalo-Granger (1995), we look at the relative information...
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investors' effective risk aversion. Using this utility function, we extend the "no good deals" methodology of Cochrane and Saá …
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idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk …, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic risk falls as government stability and respect for the rule of law … improve. Idiosyncratic risk is positively related to stock market development but negatively related to bond market …
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investing within the well-known risk-return paradigm. From the viewpoint of ex-ante equity risk premium (ERP), the five factor …-related systematic risk, ii) the exposure to ESG-related systematic risk is significantly priced in the market, and iii) equity funds …
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estimate "macro risk factors" that drive "bad" (negatively skewed) and "good" (positively skewed) variation for supply and … significantly contribute to the variation yields, risk premiums and return variances for nominal bonds. While overall bond risk … premiums are counter-cyclical, an increase in demand variance lowers risk premiums …
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I examine how financial markets interact with news about the COVID-19 pandemic. A twelve topic model optimizes the trade-off between number of topics and topic coherence. Using this model, I show that before mid-March 2020 markets react more to the same quantum of news when volatility is higher...
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This paper investigates high-frequency (HF) market and limit orders in the U.S. Treasury market around major macroeconomic news announcements. BrokerTec introduced i-Cross at the end of 2007 and we use this exogenous event as an instrument to analyze the impact of HF activities on liquidity and...
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