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There is a close link between prices of equity options and the probability of default of a firm. We show that in the presence of positive expected equity recovery, the standard methods that assume zero equity recovery at default misestimate the probability of default implicit in option prices....
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Speeding up the exchange does not necessarily improve liquidity. On the one hand, more speed enables a high … likely to meet liquidity traders. This raises the spread. The net effect depends on a security's news-to-liquidity …
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Prior evidence on pre-bankruptcy filing informed trading is mixed. The inconclusive findings might result from the sole focus on stock trading. We reassess the presence of pre-filing informed and insider trades by examining the information content of options trading before bankruptcy...
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I examine the impact of the V-shaped disposition effect, which results in uninformed sales when investors realize large gains and losses. Adverse selection risk is reduced in the presence of more uninformed sales. I show in a model that market makers should post tighter bid-ask spreads and quote...
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This paper hypothesizes that market liquidity constrains mutual fund managers' ability to outperform, which introduces … a higher liquidity risk exposure (beta) for skilled managers. Consistently, we document an annual liquidity beta … performance spread of 4% in the cross-section of mutual funds over the period 1983-2014. Liquidity risk premia based on …
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Using a large panel of firms across the world from 1991-2006, we show that the median foreign firm has lower idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic...
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Market liquidity is expected to facilitate arbitrage, which in turn should affect the liquidity of the assets traded by … that liquidity is an important determinant of the efficacy of the ETF arbitrage. For less liquid bond ETFs, Granger …-causality tests and impulse responses suggest that this relationship is stronger and more persistent, and liquidity spillovers are …
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by identifying that this evidence largely disappears after controlling for the liquidity risk features of stocks. No … point to a strong relation between sentiment risk and liquidity risk in returns and the need for careful disentangling of … sentiment versus liquidity effects …
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degree of liquidity they provide. We provide a stylized model to examine the implications of these costs on dealer behavior … and market liquidity. We use the model to guide an empirical study of the single-name credit default swap (CDS) market …
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liquidity and (generally) welfare compared to the case of an unregulated monopoly. Controlling entry or, even better, platform …
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