Auflistung LIF-SAFE Working Papers nach Forschungsbereich "Financial Markets"
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Level and Slope of Volatility Smiles in Long-Run Risk Models
(2017-10-16)We propose a long-run risk model with stochastic volatility, a time-varying mean reversion level of volatility, and jumps in the state variables. The special feature of our model is that the jump intensity is not affine ... -
Lighting up the Dark: Liquidity in the German Corporate Bond Market
(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 ... -
Liquidity Premia in CDS Markets
(2017-07-14)We develop a state-space model to decompose bid and ask quotes of CDS into two components, fair default premium and liquidity premium. This approach gives a better estimate of the default premium than mid quotes, and it ... -
Liquidity Provider Incentives in Fragmented Securities Markets
(2018-07-31)We study the introduction of single-market liquidity provider incentives in fragmented securities markets. Specifically, we analyze the introduction of the Xetra Liquidity Provider Program at Deutsche Boerse from two ... -
Liquidity provision: Normal times vs Crashes
(2019-10-29)We study the role of various trader types in providing liquidity in spot and futures markets based on data from the National Stock Exchange of India for a single large stock. During normal times, short-term traders who ... -
Low-Latency Trading and Price Discovery: Evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Pre-Opening and Opening Periods
(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 ... -
Machine Learning Sentiment Analysis, Covid-19 News and Stock Market Reactions
(2020-09-15)The possibility to investigate the impact of news on stock prices has observed a strong evolution thanks to the recent use of natural language processing (NLP) in finance and economics. In this paper, we investigate COVID-19 ... -
Managing Excess Volatility: Design and Effectiveness of Circuit Breakers
(2017-02-02)We investigate different designs of circuit breakers implemented on European trading venues and examine their effectiveness to manage excess volatility and to preserve liquidity. Specifically, we empirically analyze ... -
Market impact of government communication: The case of presidential tweets
(2021-10-06)"We propose the ""President reacts to news"" channel of stock returns by studying the financial market impact of the Twitter account of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. We use machine learning algorithms ... -
Measuring Ambiguity Aversion: A Systematic Experimental Approach
(2014-06-20)This paper provides a systematic analysis of individual attitudes towards ambiguity, based on laboratory experiments. The design of the analysis allows to capture individual behavior across various levels of ambiguity, ... -
Measuring Sovereign Contagion in Europe
(2015-04-01)This paper analyzes sovereign risk shift-contagion, i.e. positive and significant changes in the propagation mechanisms, using bond yield spreads for the major eurozone countries. By emphasizing the use of two econometric ... -
Momentum-managed equity factors
(2019-07-22)Managed portfolios that exploit positive first-order autocorrelation in monthly excess returns of equity factor portfolios produce large alphas and gains in Sharpe ratios. We document this finding for factor portfolios ... -
Much Ado About Nothing: A Study of Differential Pricing and Liquidity of Short and Long Term Bonds
(2018-11-01)Are yields of long-maturity bonds distorted by demand pressure of clientele investors, regulatory effects, or default, flight-to-safety or liquidity premiums? Using data on German nominal bonds between 2005 and 2015, we ... -
Mutual Excitation in Eurozone Sovereign CDS
(2014-05-01)We study self- and cross-excitation of shocks in the Eurozone sovereign CDS market. We adopt a multivariate setting with credit default intensities driven by mutually exciting jump processes, to capture the salient features ... -
"Nobody is Perfect": Asset Pricing and Long-Run Survival When Heterogeneous Investors Exhibit Different Kinds of Filtering Errors
(2015-07-31)In this paper we analyze an economy with two heterogeneous investors who both exhibit misspecified filtering models for the unobservable expected growth rate of the aggregated dividend. A key result of our analysis with ... -
Obfuscation and Rational Inattention in Digitalized Markets
(2021-02-05)This paper studies the behavior of competing firms in a duopoly with rational inattentive consumers. Firms play a sequential game in which they decide to obfuscate their individual prices before competing on price. ... -
Optimal Consumption and Investment with Epstein-Zin Recursive Utility
(2016-07-04)We study continuous-time optimal consumption and investment with Epstein-Zin recursive preferences in incomplete markets. We develop a novel approach that rigorously constructs the solution of the associated Hamilton-Jac ... -
Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Choice with Loss Aversion
(2016-05-16)This paper analyses the consumption-investment problem of a loss averse investor equipped with s-shaped utility over consumption relative to a time-varying reference level. Optimal consumption exceeds the reference level ... -
Optimists and Pessimists in (In)Complete Markets
(2019-06-06)We study the effects of market incompleteness on speculation, investor survival, and asset pricing moments, when investors disagree about the likelihood of jumps and have recursive preferences. We consider two models. In ... -
Option-Implied Information and Predictability of Extreme Returns
(2013-01-28)We study whether prices of traded options contain information about future extreme market events. Our option-implied conditional expectation of market loss due to tail events, or tail loss measure, predicts future market ...