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speculative trading increases. As a result, market liquidity deteriorates and short-term volatility rises. Our findings hold for a …
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We show that limited dealer participation in the market, coupled with an informational friction resulting from high frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity consumption decisions traders demand more liquidity...
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following the auctions. This effect is stronger when market volatility is higher. We rationalize both findings using a simple …
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the opposite direction of transitory pricing errors, both on average and on the highest volatility days. This is done …
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volatility at the turn of the millennium when Japanese foreign exchange intervention started to remain unsterilized …
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Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
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Using the 2007-2009 financial crisis as a laboratory, we analyze the transmission of crises to country-industry equity portfolios in 55 countries. We use an asset pricing framework with global and local factors to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings as...
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I estimate the transmission of large global volatility shocks in international equity markets from the earlier (pre … significant increases in unanticipated volatility in US equity markets, which I relate to well-known historical events. My …
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We examine stock index and Treasury futures markets around releases of U.S. macroeconomic announcements. Seven out of 21 market-moving announcements show evidence of substantial informed trading before the official release time. Prices begin to move in the "correct" direction about 30 minutes...
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This paper models volatility spillovers from mature to emerging stock markets, tests for changes in the transmission … estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs). Wald tests suggest that mature market volatility affects conditional … variances in local markets rise as well, volatility in mature markets rises more, and this shift is the main factor behind the …
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