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Dealers in over-the-counter securities form networks to mitigate search frictions. The audit trail for municipal bonds shows the dealer network has a core-periphery structure. Central dealers are more efficient at matching buyers and sellers than peripheral dealers, which shortens intermediation...
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question. Using Kalman Filter techniques, we estimate the risk exposure dynamics of a large sample of live and dead equity long … is found that more active funds outperform the less active ones. However, when risk adjusted returns are used to measure … use their skills to manage the riskiness of their portfolios and are, therefore, able to provide higher risk adjusted …
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We exploit exogenous variation in the amount of public information available to banks about a firm to empirically evaluate the importance of adverse selection in the credit market. A 2006 reform introduced by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reduced the amount of public information available to...
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This study analyzes the reaction of the U.S. Treasury bond market to innovations in macroeconomic fundamentals. We identify these innovations with macroeconomic news, defined as differences between the actual releases and their market expectations. We show that macroeconomic news explain about...
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We investigate the informational content of options-implied probability density functions (PDFs) for the future price of oil. Using a semiparametric variant of the methodology in Breeden and Litzenberger (1978), we investigate the fit and smoothness of distributions derived from alternative PDF...
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with theory, our results confirm that firms use drawdowns to sustain investment after an idiosyncratic liquidity shock …
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We propose a new decomposition of the variance risk premium in terms of upside and downside variance risk premia. The … difference between upside and downside variance risk premia is a measure of skewness risk premium. We establish that the downside … variance risk premium is the main component of the variance risk premium, and that the skewness risk premium is a priced factor …
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random magnitudes. Jump risk premia are allowed for. We show that the model implies a closed-form representation of yields as … on other days). The model also produces patterns in bond risk premia that are consistent with the empirical finding that …
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To attract retail time deposits, over 7,000 FDIC insured U.S. commercial banks publicly post their yield offers. I document an economically sizable and highly pro-cyclical cross-sectional dispersion in these yield offers during the period 1997 - 2011. Banks adjusted their yields rigidly and...
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We quantify the effect of refinancing risk on euro area money market spreads, a major factor driving spreads during the … borrow over a given horizon, thus increasing refinancing risk. We measure refinancing risk by quantifying the sensitivity of … frequency. Results suggest that refinancing risk affects the spread significantly across time, albeit in a largely varying …
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