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composite liquidity index and five different types of liquidity measures. We find that liquidity shocks, including both funding …We explore whether and how liquidity factors influence risk transfers between commodity and stock markets using a … liquidity and market liquidity, are positively associated with comovements between commodity and stock markets after 2000 …
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) trading and liquidity. We find strong intraday variations in index CDS trading activities and liquidity. Unlike the U … findings improve our understanding of the trading costs and liquidity in the over-the-counter derivatives market …
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I develop a model with two assets in which the hedging activity of derivatives dealers, interacting with market illiquidity, distorts the covariance structure of the market. I apply the model to hedging of counter party risk, and find strong support for the model's key predictions. Using...
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We estimate probabilities of bankruptcy for 5,784 industrial firms in the period 1988-2002 in a model where common equity is viewed as a down-and-out barrier option on the firm's assets. Asset values and volatilities as well as firm-specific bankruptcy barriers are simultaneously backed out from...
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This paper shows that forward default intensities in the Black and Cox (1976) model of corporate default can be expressed in terms of the Mills Ratio (Mills, 1926). The behavior of the forward default intensity and hence the survivorship functions then follows from inequalities that are...
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There is a close link between prices of equity options and the probability of default of a firm. We show that in the presence of positive expected equity recovery, the standard methods that assume zero equity recovery at default misestimate the probability of default implicit in option prices....
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The paper shows that issuing activity does not result in superior liquidity. Even the kinds of new issues that are … existing liquidity-based explanations of the new issues puzzle. The paper also shows that the low-minus-high turnover factor …
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agents, including mutual funds, suffer from liquidity-related trading …
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This paper focuses on the search for a summary quantitative measure for option liquidity that is economically …-quote price) not only leads to liquidity ranking of options that is contrary to the popular view, but it is also biased against … lower priced options and hence can lead to erroneous conclusion about liquidity risk premium of options. To gain economic …
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Financial institutions and academic researchers utilize bankruptcy prediction models to assess distress risk. However, predicting default can be problematic since (i) few firms actually experience default in any one year, (ii) the lag between practical and actual default can vary significantly,...
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