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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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We test the effects of uncertainty on market liquidity using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. Given the …
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liquidity, especially for stocks with small market capitalization,high volatility and no listed options; (ii) slowed down price …
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Despite a large and growing theoretical literature on flights to safety, there does not appear to exist an empirical characterization of flight-to-safety (FTS) episodes. Using only data on bond and stock returns, we identify and characterize flight to safety episodes for 23 countries. On...
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We trace the evolution of extreme illiquidity discounts among Treasury securities during the financial crisis, when … appeal to these investors. The effect of the widened liquidity gap on transactions costs is further amplified by a surge in … the price liquidity providers charge for access to their balance sheets in the crisis …
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research. Recently, Lang and Maffett show that transparency reduces firm-level liquidity uncertainty, while Ng shows that …This paper highlights the different avenues through which stock liquidity can potentially transcend into accounting … increased information quality can reduce a firm's exposure to systematic liquidity risk. These studies respectively suggest that …
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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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liquidity, especially for stocks with small market capitalization,high volatility and no listed options; (ii) slowed down price …
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Despite a large and growing theoretical literature on flights to safety, there does not appear to exist an empirical characterization of flight-to-safety (FTS) episodes. Using only data on bond and stock returns, we identify and characterize flight to safety episodes for 23 countries. On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590578
We study the role of various trader types in providing liquidity in spot and futures markets based on data from the … overnight are the primary liquidity providers in both spot and futures markets. We have two crashes in our sample, both … in both markets. Market stability may require the presence of well-capitalized standby liquidity providers for recovery …
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