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Trading in the CDS market in this paper occurs because irrational investors have optimal beliefs about the default state of the economy, those investors tend to be overly optimistic that default is less likely. Since the imposition of the CDS ban on member states of the European Union in 2012,...
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This paper examines how speculation in financial markets can affect real investments and asset prices with asymmetric adjustment costs. Investors with recursive preferences have heterogeneous beliefs about real productivity and some extraneous risk and trade them in financial markets....
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In a production economy with trade in financial markets motivated by the desire to share labor-income risk and to speculate, we show that speculation increases volatility of asset returns and investment growth, increases the equity risk premium, and reduces welfare. Regulatory measures, such as...
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risk historically received more attention, especially in financial regulation, our analysis shows that volatility clusters …
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In a production economy with trade in financial markets motivated by the desire to share labor-income risk and to speculate, we show that speculation increases volatility of asset returns and investment growth, increases the equity risk premium, and reduces welfare. Regulatory measures, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000537
We present a model of financial market liquidity provided by financially constrained intermediaries. We show that market liquidity increases with the level of intermediary capital. We also characterize conditions under which intermediaries play a stabilizing or destabilizing role in markets....
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This paper investigates the speed of price discovery when information becomes publicly available but requires costly processing to become common knowledge. We exploit the unique institutional setting of hacks on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Public blockchain data provides the precise...
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Over-the-counter (OTC) traders cannot pursue the two fundamental objectives of portfolio management, the identification of portfolio market risk and return and its diversification. The result of this major market shortcoming is a complex, systemically risky market disequilibrium. The tradable...
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I test theories of regulation using comprehensive datasets on regulatory changes, equity returns, and firm fundamentals …. I find that firms in industries subject to more regulation earn significantly higher returns than firms in deregulated … changes. Overall, these findings are consistent with regulatory capture and inconsistent with the public interest theory …
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Solvency II regulation. The regulatory efficient portfolios are determined using the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II …-exposure to bonds with higher credit risk in different market regimes represents a weakness of the Solvency II regulation with …
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