• Central Bank-Driven Mispricing 

      Pelizzon, Loriana; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.; Tomio, Davide; Uno, Jun (2018-10-01)
      We show that bond purchases undertaken in the context of quantitative easing efforts by the European Central Bank created a large mispricing between the market for German and Italian government bonds and their respective ...
    • Collateral Eligibility of Corporate Debt in the Eurosystem 

      Pelizzon, Loriana; Riedel, Max; Simon, Zorka; Subrahmanyam, Marti G. (2020-04-01)
      We study how the Eurosystem Collateral Framework for corporate bonds helps the European Central Bank (ECB) fulfill its policy mandate. Using the ECBs eligibility list, we identify the first inclusion date of both bonds and ...
    • Designated Market Makers: Competition and Incentives 

      Bellia, Mario; Pelizzon, Loriana; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.; Yuferova, Darya (2020-03-30)
      Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidity? Using data from NYSE Euronext Paris, we show that an exogenous increase in competition among DMMs leads to a significant ...
    • Lighting up the Dark: Liquidity in the German Corporate Bond Market 

      Gündüz, Yalin; Ottonello, Giorgio; Pelizzon, Loriana; Schneider, Michael; Subrahmanyam, Marti G. (2018-09-17)
      "We study the impact of transparency on liquidity in OTC markets. We do so by providing an analysis of liquidity in a corporate bond market without trade transparency (Germany), and comparing our findings to a market with ...
    • Low-Latency Trading and Price Discovery: Evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Pre-Opening and Opening Periods 

      Bellia, Mario; Pelizzon, Loriana; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.; Uno, Jun; Yuferova, Darya (2015-03-01)
      We study whether the presence of low-latency traders (including high-frequency traders (HFTs)) in the pre-opening period contributes to market quality, defined by price discovery and liquidity provision, in the opening ...
    • Paying for Market Liquidity: Competition and Incentives 

      Bellia, Mario; Pelizzon, Loriana; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.; Yuferova, Darya (2019-02-01)
      Do competition and incentives offered to designated market makers (DMMs) improve market liquidity? Using data from NYSE Euronext Paris, we show that an exogenous increase in competition among DMMs leads to a significant ...
    • Sovereign Credit Risk, Liquidity, and ECB Intervention: Deus Ex Machina? 

      Pelizzon, Loriana; Subrahmanyam, Marti G.; Tomio, Davide; Uno, Jun (2016-11-18)
      We examine the dynamic relation between credit risk and liquidity in the Italian sovereign bond market during the Euro-zone crisis and the subsequent European Central Bank (ECB) interventions. Credit risk drives the liquidity ...
    • The COVID-19 Shock and Equity Shortfall: Firm-Level Evidence from Ital 

      Carletti, Elena; Oliviero, Tommaso; Pagano, Marco; Pelizzon, Loriana; Subrahmanyam, Marti G. (2020-10-29)
      We employ a representative sample of 80,972 Italian firms to forecast the drop in profits and the equity shortfall triggered by the COVID-19 lockdown. A 3-month lockdown generates an aggregate yearly drop in profits of ...