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The financial crisis has highlighted the need for models that can identify counterparty risk exposures and shock transmission processes at the systemic level. We use the euro area financial accounts (flow of funds) data to construct a sector-level network of bilateral balance sheet exposures and...
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This paper analyses the effects of US monetary policy on stock markets. We find that, on average, a tightening of 50 basis points reduces returns by about 3%. Moreover, returns react more strongly when no change had been expected, when there is a directional change in the monetary policy stance...
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Financial decision makers often consider the information in currency option valuations when making assessments about …
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We model the interbank market for overnight credit with heterogeneous banks and asymmetric information. An … information about the liquidity situation in the market. It is shown that with positive probability, the liquidity effect … rate. The phenomenon does not disappear when the number of banks increases. We also show that private information mitigates …
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proposed by Bacchetta and van Wincoop (2003) and allows us to disentangle the liquidity and information effects of order flow …
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In their seminal paper French and Roll (1986) postulate that public information affects prices before anyone can trade … very precise information from the largest European bond futures market. The results show that the price response to public …
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During 2005-2006, the Chinese government implemented a reform aimed at eliminating the so-called non-tradable shares (NTS), shares typically held by the State or by politically connected institutional investors that were issued at the early stage of financial market development. Our analysis,...
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This paper provides a study of bond yield differentials among EU eurobonds issued between 1991 and 2002. Interest differentials between bonds issued by EU countries and Germany or the USA contain risk premia which increase with the debt, deficit and debt-service ratio and depend positively on...
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We examine the link between equity risk premiums and demographic changes using a very long sample over the whole twentieth century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth century for fifteen countries. We find that demographic...
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This paper takes a close look at the 'behavioural finance' explanations of the equity premium puzzle, namely myopic loss aversion (Benartzi and Thaler, 1995) and disappointment aversion (Ang, Bekaert and Liu, 2000). The paper proposes a simple specification of loss and disappointment aversion...
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