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This paper investigates the validity of Covered Interest Rate Parity (CIP) in longdated fixed income securities. I show that common measures of CIP rely on trading strategies subject to rollover risk and credit risk, or fail to fully account for the trading costs. Hence, roundtrip CIP profit is...
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We identify the drivers of unsecured and collateralized loan volumes, rates and haircuts in Canada using the Bayesian model averaging approach to deal with model uncertainty. Our results suggest that the key friction driving behaviour in this market is the collateral reallocation cost faced by...
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The fixing of the Libor and Euribor benchmark rates has proven vulnerable to manipulation. Individual rate-setters may …
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The fixing of the Libor and Euribor benchmark rates has proven vulnerable to manipulation. Individual rate-setters may …
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This paper examines the impact of exogenous liquidity shocks in the unsecured interbank market. We evaluate the effects of idiosyncratic liquidity shocks - arising from deposits outflow at the bank level - and of the aggregate liquidity shock related to the U.S. tapering observed between May and...
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We empirically investigate why wholesale funding is fragile by providing the first study of how individual banks borrow and lend in the euro unsecured and secured interbank market. Consistent with theories in which lenders enforce market discipline by monitoring counterparty credit risk and...
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Currently, Eurodollars and fed funds markets combined trade about $220 billion in funds daily, the vast majority of which with overnight tenor. In this paper, we document several features of these wholesale unsecured dollar funding markets. Using daily confidential data on wholesale unsecured...
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In 2012, news related the manipulation of LIBOR directed the attention of authorities and the general public to … interbank reference rates. International reviews made it clear that a reform of LIBOR and the numerous reference rates that … follow the methodology of LIBOR is necessary, because changes in reference rates influence the payment terms of thousands of …
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The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As … of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to … trillions more in variable rate mortgage and student loans. LIBOR's erratic behaviour during the financial crisis fuelled market …
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interest rates are three and six month Eurodollar London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor), three and six month U.S. Treasury …
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