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The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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and tail risk, and by affecting option market liquidity, including the bid-ask spread and market depth. Our estimates …
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This paper studies the effects of financial speculation on commodity futures returns, using publicly available data from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, aggregated by trader groups. We exploit the heteroskedasticity in the weekly data to identify exogenous variation in speculators'...
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credit spreads during 2002-2012: a liquidity regime and a default regime. Both regimes contribute to the patterns observed in … credit spreads. The liquidity regime seems to explain the predictive power of credit risk on the 2007-2009 NBER recession …
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Arbitrage and liquidity are interrelated. Liquidity facilitates arbitrageurs’ trading on deviations from the law of one … price. However, whether arbitrage opportunity leads to an increase or decrease in liquidity depends on the cause of the … deviation. A demand shock leads to greater liquidity, while asymmetric information is toxic to liquidity. We examine how …
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information channels): when liquidity providers face higher funding constraints, liquidity spillovers across assets increase …Liquidity spillovers -- i.e., the transmissions of liquidity shocks from one asset to another -- are an important yet … not fully understood feature of price formation in financial markets. In this paper, I examine liquidity spillovers across …
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