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Bubbles in hybrid markets : how expectations about algorithmic trading affect human trading

Farjam, Mike; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2015

Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. Most of these experiments were conducted in environments with only human traders. Today markets are substantially determined by algorithmic traders. Here we use a laboratory experiment to measure changes of human trading behavior if...

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High frequency trading and fragility

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2016

frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity … consumption decisions: traders demand more liquidity when the market becomes less liquid, which in turn makes the market more … illiquid, fostering the initial demand hike. This can generate market instability, where an initial dearth of liquidity …

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The trading response of individual investors to local bankruptcies

Laudenbach, Christine; Loos, Benjamin; Pirschel, Jenny; … - 2020

We use data from a German online brokerage and a survey to show that retail investors sharply reduce risk-taking in response to nearby firm bankruptcies, which are not predictive of returns. The effects on trading are spatially highly concentrated, immediate and not persistent. They seem to...

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Exchange rate management in emerging markets : intervention via an electronic limit order book

Melvin, Michael; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmeling, Maik - 2009

This paper describes and analyzes the implementation of a crawling exchange rate band on an electronic trading platform. The placement of limit orders at the central bank's target rate serves as a credible policy statement that may coordinate beliefs of market participants. We find for our...

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Automating exchange rate target zones : intervention via an electronic limit order book

Melvin, Michael (contributor); Menkhoff, Lukas (contributor) - 2008

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Debt recovery in firm liquidations : do liquidation trustees matter?

Cepec, Jaka; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2016

Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime,...

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Analysing the determinants of credit risk for General Insurance firms in the UK

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Cerrato, Mario; Zhang, Xuan - 2016

This paper estimates a reduced-form model to assess the credit risk of General Insurance (GI) non-life firms in the UK. Compared to earlier studies, it uses a much larger sample including 30 years of data for 515 firms, and also considers a much wider set of possible determinants of credit risk....

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Furlough and household financial distress during the Covid-19 pandemic

Görtz, Christoph; McGowan, Danny; Yeromonahos, Mallory - 2021

We study how furlough affects household financial distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furlough increases the probability of late housing and bill payments by 30% and 9%, respectively. The effects exist for individuals who rent their home, but not mortgagees who can mitigate financial distress...

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Export market exit, financial pressure and the crisis

Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - 2013

Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms ́financial health, borrowing ratio and export exit, paying special attention to the recent financial crisis. Our results show that deterioration in the financial position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit...

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Dynamic trading and asset prices : Keynes vs. Hayek

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2009

We investigate the dynamics of prices, information and expectations in a competitive, noisy, dynamic asset pricing equilibrium model. We show that prices are farther away from (closer to) fundamentals compared with average expectations if and only if traders over- (under-) rely on public...

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