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The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pros and cons of fair-value accounting (FVA). This debate presents a major challenge for FVA going forward and standard setters' push to extend FVA into other areas. In this article, we highlight four important issues as an...
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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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This study examines the relation between asset liquidity and stock liquidity across 47 countries. In support of the … valuation uncertainty hypothesis, we find that firms with greater asset liquidity on average have higher stock liquidity. More … importantly, our study shows that asset liquidity plays a more significant role in resolving valuation uncertainty in countries …
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We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has … characterised by positive trends in liquidity, there is no persuasive time-series and cross-sectional evidence for a negative link … between anomalies in market returns and liquidity. Thus, this proxy of arbitrage activity does not appear to be a key factor …
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This paper studies the impact of sovereign debt rating changes on liquidity for stocks from 40 countries for the period … 1990-2009. We find that sovereign rating changes significantly affect stock liquidity. The impact is stronger for … impact on stock liquidity. We also find that some stock characteristics and country legal and macroeconomic environment are …
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-horizon return predictability as an inverse indicator of market efficiency. We find a strong relationship between liquidity and … trading carbon futures and during periods of low liquidity. Since the start of trading in Phase II of the EU Emissions Trading …
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We consider bankruptcy announcements of large financial institutions in the US and examine their impact on an international sample of 66 stock market indices. Employing an event-study methodology, we find that stock markets exhibit strong adverse reaction in the aftermath of such announcements....
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We document the negative effect of stock liquidity on default risk for a sample of 46 countries. We further find that … shock that increases liquidity. The effect of liquidity on default risk is more pronounced in countries with poorer investor … impact of stock liquidity on default risk in international markets …
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. Contemporaneous with the significant fall in equity market values is the evaporation of market liquidity. We show that transactions … of global liquidity suppliers is correlated with the increase of over 400% in margin requirements, driving a pro …-cyclical downwards liquidity spiral. These effects are shown to be concentrated in securities most exposed to electronic liquidity …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the market efficiency on the foreign exchange market since the introduction of the Euro by applying the cointegration analysis to exchange rates. The introduction of the Euro has changed the structure of the global foreign exchange market to the extent...
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