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This paper examines the dynamic relationship between credit risk and liquidity in the sovereign bond market in the … context of the European Central Bank (ECB) interventions. Using a comprehensive set of liquidity measures obtained from a … risk, as measured by the Italian sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spread, generally drive the liquidity of the market: a …
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: the deterioration of bond market liquidity, the increased bond specialness on the repurchase agreement market, and the …
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This paper examines the dynamic relationship between credit risk and liquidity in the sovereign bond market in the … context of the European Central Bank (ECB) interventions. Using a comprehensive set of liquidity measures obtained from a … risk, as measured by the Italian sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spread, generally drive the liquidity of the market: a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503289
Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidity? We employ data from … spreads. In particular, market liquidity increases the most for stocks with the largest increase in competition among DMMs …
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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 post … the U.S., the determinants of German corporate bond liquidity are in line with search theories of OTC markets. Third …
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Through the lens of market participants' objective to minimize counterparty risk, we investigate central clearing in derivatives markets, and its interaction with systematic risk, portfolio directionality, and loss sharing. Previous studies suggest that central clearing always reduces...
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We document a sizable OTC discount in the interdealer market for German sovereign bonds where exchange and over-the-counter trading coexist: the vast majority of OTC prices are favorable compared to exchange quotes. This is a challenge for theories of OTC markets centered around...
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Cross-predictability denotes the fact that some assets can predict other assets' returns. I propose a novel performance-based measure that disentangles the economic value of cross-predictability into two components: the predictive power of one asset's signal for other assets' returns...
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In this paper we provide new evidence that corporate financing decisions are associated with managerial incentives to report high equity earnings. Managers rely most heavily on debt to finance their asset growth when their future earnings prospects are poor, when they are under pressure due to...
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others, suggesting that there is no speed advantage. HFTs lead price discovery, and neither harm nor improve liquidity. They …
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