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the industry they operate in. We find that firm level information appears to be used as a gauge for transition risk, in …
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information and news channel. A novelty of the study is its use of data from Google Analytics on ECB website traffic as proxy for … communication on the information demand of the public and ultimately on inflation expectations. Overall, this study shows that …-term professional inflation expectations. Our findings add to the theoretical evidence on the existence of an information and news …
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difference tends to diminish at times of high volatility, indicating that the perceived information content of going against the …
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We estimate a reduced-form model of credit risk that incorporates stochastic volatility in default intensity via stochastic time-change. Our Bayesian MCMC estimation method overcomes nonlinearity in the measurement equation and state-dependent volatility in the state equation. We implement on...
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While many studies find that the tail distribution of high frequency stock returns follow a power law, there are only a few explanations for this finding. This study presents evidence that time-varying volatility can account for the power law property of high frequency stock returns. The power...
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We study the effects of low short-term interest rates on the optimal portfolio allocation in Markowitz portfolios and Risk parity portfolios. We propose a measure of Portfolio Instability, gauging the amount of optimal portfolio shifts needed to respond to exogenous shocks to the expected risk...
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asset commonality in the spirit of CoVaR as defined by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2016). Based on granular information, we …
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the market liquidity effects of enhanced information disclosure induced by the public registration of 144A bonds. Using …, dealer-specific effective bid-ask spreads narrow, especially for issues with higher ex-ante information asymmetry. Our … results are consistent with existing theories that disclosure reduces information risk and thus improves market liquidity …
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We study the price pressure and price discovery effects in the U.S. Treasury market by using a term structure model. Our model decomposes yield curve shifts into two components: a virtually permanent change related to order flow and a transitory, price pressure effect due to dealer inventories....
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We study empirically how competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs) affects their trading behavior and market quality. Our analysis exploits a unique dataset, which allows us to compare environments with and without high-frequency competition, and contains an exogenous event - a tick size...
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