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Systemic risk and the refinancing ratchet effect

Khandani, Amir E.; Lo, Andrew W.; Merton, Robert C. - 2009 - This draft: September 13, 2009

The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...

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The transmission of monetary policy to the cost of hedging

Fengler, Matthias; Koeniger, Winfried; Minger, Stephan - 2024

and tail risk, and by affecting option market liquidity, including the bid-ask spread and market depth. Our estimates …

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Identifying speculative demand shocks in commodity futures markets through changes in volatility

Hachula, Michael; Rieth, Malte - 2017

This paper studies the effects of financial speculation on commodity futures returns, using publicly available data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, aggregated by trader groups. We exploit the heteroskedasticity in the weekly data to identify exogenous variation in speculators'...

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The transmission of monetary policy to the cost of hedging

Fengler, Matthias; Koeniger, Winfried; Minger, Stephan - 2024

and tail risk, and by affecting option market liquidity, including the bid-ask spread and market depth. Our estimates …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015175386

Liquidity risk in credit default swap markets

Junge, Benjamin; Trolle, Anders B. - 2013

We show that liquidity risk is priced in the cross section of returns on credit default swaps (CDSs). We measure CDS … constituents' CDS spreads, and we construct a tradable liquidity factor from returns on index arbitrage strategies. CDS contracts … with higher liquidity exposures have higher expected excess returns for sellers of credit protection and trade with wider …

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Giesecke, Kay - 2001

We propose a model of correlated multi-firm default with incomplete information. While public bond investors observe issuers' assets and defaults, we suppose that they are not informed about the threshold asset level at which a firm is liquidated. Bond investors form instead a prior on these...

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Compensator-based simulation of correlated defaults

Giesecke, Kay - 2002

The market for derivatives with payoffs contingent on the credit quality of a number of reference entities has grown considerably over recent years. The risk analysis and valuation of such multi-name structures often relies on simulating the performance of the underlying credits. In this paper...

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Illiquidity transmission from spot to futures markets

Korn, Olaf; Krischak, Paolo; Theissen, Erik - 2014

futures market, but rather interacts with price risk, liquidity risk, and the risk aversion of the market maker. The … liquidity link between spot and futures markets. Our results provide no evidence in favor of the substitution hypothesis. …

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Impact of transaction taxes on commodity derivatives trading in India

Ray, Saon; Malik, Neha - 2014

Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk management in the commodities market. A transaction tax (of 0.01 per cent) on commodity futures trading was introduced in the Union Budget 2013-14. This study examines the rationale...

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Jumps in option prices and their determinants : real-time evidence from the E-mini S&P 500 option market

Kapetanios, George; Neumann, Michael; Skiadopoulos, George - 2014

We study the real-time characteristics and drivers of jumps in option prices. To this end, we employ high frequency data from the 24-hour E-mini S&P 500 options market. We find that option prices do not jump simultaneously across strikes and maturities and are uncorrelated with jumps in the...

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