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This paper studies the empirical effects of risk classification in the mandatory third-party motor insurance of Germany following the European Union’s directive to de-regulate insurance tariffs of 1994. We find evidence that inefficient risk categories had been selected while potentially...
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The weekend effect is described as the tendency for Monday security returns to be low (or negative) compared to other days of the week. The weekend effect may not be exploited by trading individual stocks because of transactions costs. However, the institutional characteristics of the US-based...
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volatility, economic integration, and liquidity (but not contagion, financial integration, currency devaluations, capital flight …
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The weekend effect is described as the tendency for Monday security returns to be low (or negative) compared to other days of the week. The weekend effect may not be exploited by trading individual stocks because of transactions costs. However, the institutional characteristics of the US-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451080
This study first shows that a transactions costs band may exist in commodity spot and futures markets and spatially separated markets as a result of the arbitrage process. Then, by using a bivariate vector error correction model (VECM), this thesis shows that the null hypothesis of linearity can...
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This paper investigates the effect of the introduction of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the liquidity of individual …
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Extreme market outcomes are often followed by a lack of liquidity and a lack of trade. This market collapse seems … uncertainty with liquidity, we specify a simple market where a monopolist financial intermediary makes a market for a propriety … liquidity. Our infinite-horizon example produces short, dramatic decreases in liquidity even though the underlying environment …
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algorithms are documented that can be rectified by recognizing that the impact on liquidity is the fundamental characteristic … underlying order placement. Although this liquidity-based method is difficult to implement, it more closely captures the actual …
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the liquidity level of derivative markets and economic growth in the cases of developed countries indicates that the risk … transfer function of the derivative markets is a contribution to economic growth. We find the liquidity level of underlying … liquidity in the underlying spot market, derivative trading can be sustained. …
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This study compares liquidity costs and other characteristics of electronic and open outcry hard red winter wheat … futures contracts traded on the Kansas City Board of Trade. Liquidity costs are considerably lower in the electronic market … than in the open outcry market. A new approach is used to estimate liquidity costs which eliminates bias resulting from …
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