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Bessembinder, Maxwell, and Venkataraman’s (2006) information-based channel relating transparency and pricing. During the pre-TRACE … mutual fund managers before and after initiations of TRACE and introductions of issuers into Markit’s CDS database …. Disseminated bonds show large and statistically significant decreases in mark dispersion around three key TRACE system rollout …
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We study the impact of transparency on liquidity in OTC markets. We do so by providing an analysis of liquidity in a … corporate bond market without trade transparency (Germany), and comparing our findings to a market with full posttrade … the U.S., the determinants of German corporate bond liquidity are in line with search theories of OTC markets. Third …
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We study price dispersion and venue choice in the interdealer market for German sovereign bonds, where an exchange and over-the-counter segments coexist. We show that 85% of OTC traded prices are favorable with respect to exchange quotes, indicating the prevalence of an OTC discount. This...
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Using microdata on stock-level lending positions from German mutual funds, we show that active funds use the equity lending market to obtain information about short sale demand. Funds reduce long positions in response to these demand signals, which allows fund managers to front-run public...
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In this paper we show that informational and real frictions in CDS markets strongly affect CDS premia. We derive this main finding using a proprietary set of individual CDS transactions cleared by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. We first show that CDS traders adjust the CDS premium...
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evidence that HFTs tend to supply less liquidity after an unexpected rise in market volatility and prior to upcoming …
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During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...
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Did the decline in inflation rates from 2012 to 2015 and the low levels of market-based inflation expectations lead to de-anchored inflation dynamics in the euro area? This paper is the first time-varying event study to investigate the reaction of inflation-linked swap (ILS) rates - a...
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We analyze the relation between market-based credit risk interconnectedness among banks during the crisis and the associated balance sheet linkages via funding and securities holdings. For identification, we use a proprietary dataset that has the funding positions of banks at the bank-to-bank...
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For the DAX index market, this paper analyses the development of return differences between exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the DAX index from the perspective of long-term investors. The newly introduced methodology provides the opportunity to continuously identify long-term costs of passively...
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