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ECB monetary operations and the interbank repo market
Dunne, Peter G.; Fleming, Michael J.; Zholos, Andrey - 2013
We examine the relationship between monetary policy operations and interbank borrowing and lending of funds using sovereign bonds as collateral. We first establish that, in the precrisis period, there are important but rather weak relations between these funding sources and that this...
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Dealers and the dealer of last resort : evidence from MBS markets in the COVID-19 crisis
Chen, Jiakai; Liu, Haoyang; Sarkar, Asani; Song, Zhaogang - 2021 - Revised May 2021
liquidity shock. Dealers provided liquidity by increasing both their long cash and short forward positions significantly, but … subject to Basel III liquidity regulations increased their positions more than others. The basis narrowed by about $0 … combined liquidity constraints of investors and dealers led to severe price dislocations, and the Fed, in its role as the …
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Order flow segmentation and the role of dark trading in the price discovery of U.S. treasury securities
Fleming, Michael J.; Nguyen, Giang H. - 2013
a mechanism for discovering dark liquidity. We quantify its role in the price formation process in a model of the … dynamics of price and segmented order flow induced by the protocol. We find that the dark liquidity pool generally contains … liquidity providers to guard against adverse price movements than as a channel to hide private information. …
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Alternative trading systems in the corporate bond market
Kozora, Matthew; Mizrach, Bruce Marshall; Peppe, Matthew; … - 2020
We investigate the trading of corporate bonds on alternative trading system (ATS) platforms. We draw a key distinction between request-for-quote (RFQ) and electronic communication network (ECN) trading protocols, which balance investors' preference for immediacy and anonymity. Trades on ATS...
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Trading risk and volatility in interest rate swap spreads
Kambhu, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this relationship in the behavior of interest rate swap spreads and in the volume and interest rates of repurchase contracts. Specifically, we focus on convergence trading, in which...
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Inference, arbitrage, and asset price volatility
Adrian, Tobias (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. February 2008
Does the presence of arbitrageurs decrease equilibrium asset price volatility? I study an economy with arbitrageurs, informed investors, and noise traders. Arbitrageurs face a trade-off between arbitrage and inference: they would like to buy assets in response to temporary price declines (the...
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Market declines: is banning short selling the solution?
Battalio, Robert H.; Mehran, Hamid; Schultz, Paul H. - 2011
stock prices, but significantly increased costs of liquidity. In August 2011, the U.S. market experienced a large decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349656
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Time variation in asset price response to macro announcements
Goldberg, Linda S.; Grisse, Christian - 2013
Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, theserelationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high-frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....
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Is there an S&P 500 Index effect?
Kasch, Maria; Sarkar, Asani - 2011 - Rev. September 2012
We find that the firms included in the S&P 500 index are characterized by large increases in earnings, appreciation in market value, and positive price momentum in the period preceding their index inclusion. This strong preinclusion performance predicts 1) the permanent increase in market value...
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The microstructure of China's government bond market
Bai, Jennie; Fleming, Michael J.; Horan, Casidhe - 2013
Although China now has one of the largest government bond markets in the world, the market has received relatively little attention and analysis. We describe the history and structure of the market and assess its functioning. We find that trading in individual bonds was historically sparse but...
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