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This paper examines how cybersecurity risk in crypto securities affects asset returns. Hackers steal cryptocurrencies by exploiting bugs in the code. We develop a novel measure of ex-ante cybersecurity risk by counting bug reports from GitHub, which houses the source code that produces crypto...
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Derivatives are playing an increasing role within the trading ecosystem of Bitcoin markets. This includes futures that are traded on US regulated exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and unregulated exchanges like Binance. Prior research on which bitcoin markets lead in price...
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We use the database leak of Mt. Gox exchange to analyze the dynamics of the price of bitcoin from June 2011 to November 2013. This gives us a rare opportunity to study an emerging retail-focused, highly speculative and unregulated market with trader identifiers at a tick transaction level. Jumps...
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We examine all available 146 Proof-of-Work based cryptocurrencies that started trading prior to the end of 2014 and track their performance until December 2018. We find that about 60% of those cryptocurrencies were eventually in default. The substantial sums of money involved mean those...
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investigation of liquidity-related metrics shows that lower prior trading volume and asset market capitalization have positive … effect on listing returns. Investors use phases of high market liquidity to sell off positions around the period of cross …
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Dramatic microstructure changes in equity markets have made standard liquidity measures less accurate proxies of … trading costs. We develop trade-time liquidity measures that reflect per-dollar price impacts of fixed-dollar volumes. Our …-section of expected returns for NYSE-listed stocks: we obtain monthly liquidity premium estimates of 5.3bp for expected returns …
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Lou and Sadka (2011) examine the effect of stock liquidity characteristics on stock performance during the 2008 …-2009 crisis. Their conclusion is that liquidity risk, and not the liquidity level, explains stock performance during the crisis …. Lou and Sadka (2011) measure liquidity via Amihud’s (2002) illiquidity measure. I construct a new measure of illiquidity …
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We clarify that the widely used estimation method for the LOT liquidity model in the market microstructure literature …
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measure) to aggregate different groups of liquidity measures (percent-cost proxies, cost-per-volume proxies, etc.), in order … to accommodate for the ‘different dimensions of liquidity' (Amihud et al., 2005) through a single ‘unified' market …-wide aggregate liquidity metric. The weights for the multiple dimensions are time-varying and depend on three components: the …
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We explore a broad range of high-frequency liquidity measures for the Chinese stock market, based on a comprehensive … summarize their liquidity levels and key distributional properties. Hypothesis tests show that order interarrival times follow … Chinese stock market. We analyze the intraday and cross-sectional patterns of liquidity, and find novel intraday periodicities …
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