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Many market participants invest resources to acquire information about liquidity rather than fundamentals. I show that … agents using such information can reduce the magnitude of short-lived pricing errors by trading against liquidity shocks …. However, the short-run stabilizing effect of this behavior also makes it more difficult to identify liquidity shocks, a signal …
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Assuming benevolent managers, the debt-overhang problem suggests that distressed firms generally refrain from issuing equity. In contrast, agency theory predicts that distressed firm managers have strong self-interests to finance even deteriorating projects through equity issuance. This paper...
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I examine the role of sell-side debt analyst reports in the corporate bond market for financially distressed firms. Debt analysts are not subject to the same conflict-of-interest regulations as equity analysts, and for this reason it is an open question whether the primary function of debt...
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liquidity. Bubbles can arise without the short-sales constraint. We show that the more frequently investors trade in the future …
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other informational advantages. High levels of order flow toxicity can culminate in market makers providing liquidity at a … market liquidity and precede precipitous drops in asset prices. Bulk Volume VPIN (BV-VPIN) is one way of measuring the …
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quality and price efficiency. For German large-cap stocks we find excess liquidity demand around MA signals and high limit … increase of a larger magnitude. This suggests that liquidity demand in direction of the signal leads to persistent price …
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measures of liquidity. A meta-model implies an empirical measure of liquidity, denoted L, which describes various … characteristics of trading and funding liquidity such as trading costs, bet sizes, haircuts, and capital requirements. When mapped …
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We study arbitrage in ETFs holding illiquid corporate bonds, focusing on authorized participants (APs) and their balance sheet space constraints. As unique ETF arbitrageurs, most APs are also bond dealers, and they use their own balance sheet in both roles. We find that bond market illiquidity...
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order book liquidity in NASDAQ-listed stocks on the NASDAQ exchange. For treatment stocks with an average pre-pilot quoted … spread less than $0.05, the tick size increase is binding and leads to a significant decrease in liquidity in the limit order … book becomes less resilient – the amount of time required for a deviation in liquidity to return to its long-run mean. For …
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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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