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This paper contrasts the investment behavior of different financial institutions in debt securities as a response to past returns. For identification, I use unique security-level data from the German Micro-database Securities Holdings Statistics. Banks and investment funds respond in a...
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Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the crosssection and over time. In this paper …, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …
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This paper studies the evolution of the greenium, i.e. a risk premium linked to firms' greenness and environmental … transparency, based on individual stock returns. We estimate an asset pricing model with time-varying risk premia, where the …
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capital and its impact on bond risk premia. We show that institutional fund managers trade strongly procyclically: they … versa. Funds more exposed to negative yields increase their risk-taking more strongly, and this effect is particularly …
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or long-term unemployment, may occur during working years. Personal disaster risk alters lifetime ex-ante investment … characterizes rare disasters, results in lower risk-taking at the beginning of working life, and is crucial in order to match the …
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The first Global Climate Strike on March 15, 2019 has represented a historical turn in climate activism. We investigate the cross-section of European stock price reactions to this event. Looking at a large sample of European firms, we find that the unanticipated success of this event caused a...
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We show that the news is a rich source of data on distressed firm links that drive firm- level and aggregate risks. The news tends to report about links in which a less popular firm is distressed and may contaminate a more popular firm. This constitutes a contagion channel that yields...
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identify feedback loops, the European Systemic Risk Board has developed macroprudential surveys that ask banks and insurers how …
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Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo Saxon one, where markets prevail, with characteristics of the continental European systems, where intermediaries are predominant. The goal of this paper is to study financial...
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While some credit booms are followed by economic underperformance, many are not. Can lending standards help separate good credit booms from bad credit booms contemporaneously? To observe lending standards internationally, I use information from primary debt capital markets. I construct the...
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