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This paper examines the dynamic relationship between credit risk and liquidity in the sovereign bond market in the … context of the European Central Bank (ECB) interventions. Using a comprehensive set of liquidity measures obtained from a … risk, as measured by the Italian sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spread, generally drive the liquidity of the market: a …
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This paper investigates how the stock market reacts to firm level liquidity shocks. We find that negative and … persistent liquidity shocks not only lead to lower contemporaneous returns, but also predict negative returns for up to six … months in the future. Long-short portfolios sorted on past liquidity shocks generate a raw and risk-adjusted return of more …
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This paper argues that the capacity of financial markets to aggregate dispersed information about economic conditions is diminished in times of distress, resulting in countercyclical uncertainty. Building on a rational expectations equilibrium dynamic environment, I model informed traders as...
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I use the 2007-2008 financial crisis to gauge how internal financial resources and external financial constraints mitigate or worsen the impact of the crisis on default risk of US industrial firms. I identify heterogeneity in short-term funding needs at the onset of the crisis by exploiting...
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Using a novel multivariate microstructure model and time varying estimation framework we analyse the change in the information structure of the segmented Shanghai A and B share listed stocks after a significant set of regulatory reforms in 2001, nicknamed the 'year of regulation' by...
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This paper examines the relationship between liquidity and quality of financial information by analyzing long …. Overall, my results indicate a positive relationship between quality of financial information and liquidity …
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We estimate effective spreads and round-trip transaction costs at the Berlin Stock Exchange for the period 1892-1913 using daily stock market returns for a sample of 27 stocks. Our results show that transaction costs at the main stock exchange in a bank-based financial system at the turn of the...
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categories of firm. Some of the changes in returns reflect changes in liquidity, while the remainder reflect adjustments to the …
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, liquidity risk should be priced into both instruments in such a way that buying exposure to the same default risk is identically … priced. We use a time-varying vector autoregression framework to establish the credit and liquidity spreads interactions over … countries. Our major result is that for several countries including Greece, Portugal and Ireland the liquidity of the sovereign …
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We investigate whether increasing the speed of order execution affects investor trading strategy and market liquidity …
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