Short Selling and Price Discovery in Corporate Bonds PDF Download

Author: Terrence Hendershott
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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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We show short selling in corporate bonds forecasts future bond returns. Short selling predicts bond returns where private information is more likely, in high-yield bonds, particularly after Lehman's collapse. Short selling predicts returns following both high and low past bond returns. This, together with short selling increasing following past buying order imbalances, suggests short sellers trade against price pressures as well as trade on information. Short selling predicts bond returns both in the individual bonds that are shorted and in other bonds by the same issuer. Past stock returns and short selling in stocks predict bond returns, but do not eliminate bond short selling predicting bond returns. Bond short selling does not predict the issuer's stock returns. These results show bond short sellers contribute to efficient bond prices and that short sellers' information flows from stocks to bonds, but not from bonds to stocks.

Author: Yifei Mao
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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This paper uses intraday U.S. bond transaction and stock quote data to investigate whether corporate bonds lead stocks in price discovery of underlying firm value. I use Hasbrouck's (1995) "information share" approach to determine the relative contribution of corporate bonds to price discovery. Based on a sample of 214 firms, I find that corporate bond markets contribute 12.6% on average to price discovery from 2009 to 2011. Corporate bond market price discovery increases with the riskiness of the underlying firm value, and is related to contemporaneous market conditions. The findings are consistent with the informed trading theory and Merton (1973) model.

Author: Craig W. Holden
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Languages : en
Pages : 36

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This paper examines intraday price discovery in three closely-related U.S. markets: stocks, Over-The-Counter (OTC) corporate bonds, and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) electronically-traded corporate bonds. We calculate the Hasbrouck (1995) information shares of these three markets over five years. We find that OTC corporate bond trades have a 5.7% information share, despite zero pre-trade transparency in the OTC market. Further, NYSE corporate bonds have a 45.8% information share, despite having a tiny market share, because of publicly-displayed, frequently-updated bid-ask quotes that can be traded at any time. OTC corporate bond information shares are inversely related to credit quality and are relatively constant over time. This is consistent with multi-security informed trading theory and the Merton (1974) corporate bond model. NYSE corporate bond information shares are positively related to their update frequency. Thus, the subset of NYSE bonds that are updated more frequently are more informative.

Author: Huu Nhan Duong
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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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We investigate the impact of short selling activity on trading activity and price volatility in the U.S corporate bond market. Consistent with prior literature, we find that investors use short selling as a platform to express their difference of opinions. In addition, we find that the positive relation between short selling activity and price volatility becomes weaker during period when investors' expectations tend to be more homogenous such as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). More importantly, we show that short selling in the corporate bond market is not simply a substitute to equity short selling and option trading for investors to trade negative news and information against the underlying company. On the contrary, it is an independent conduit for investors to express difference of opinions specific to bond.

Author: Stephen E. Christophe
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Languages : en
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This paper examines the relationship between short selling in the equity market and corporate bond returns. We show that both shorting activity and size of short trades are inversely correlated with contemporaneous bond returns. In addition, firms with heavily shorted shares or large short trade size experience significantly negative future bond returns. Further tests indicate that the relation between short trade size and subsequent bond returns is consistent with stealth trading of short sellers. The impact of both shorting activity and short trade size on bond returns is robust to various controls for risk, liquidity, and other pricing factors. In examining the sources of information in short selling, we find that firms associated with heavy short selling or large short trade size are likely to subsequently experience negative earnings surprises, higher credit risk, and reduced dividends. The overall results support the proposition that short trades in the equity market exert important valuation consequences in the corporate bond market.

Author: New York Institute of Finance
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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From arbitrage to zero-coupon bonds, this all-inclusive guide explains the fundamentals of investments and their markets. Covers how broker/dealer firms function, option trading, technical and fundamental futures, exchange and over-the-counter transactions, and more.

Author: Mark Mitchell
Publisher:
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Category : Arbitrage
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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We study three cases in which specialized arbitrageurs lost significant amounts of capital and, as a result, became liquidity demanders rather than providers. The effects on security markets were large and persistent: Prices dropped relative to fundamentals and the rebound took months. While multi-strategy hedge funds who were not capital constrained increased their positions, a large fraction of these funds actually acted as net sellers consistent with the view that information barriers within a firm (not just relative to outside investors) can lead to capital constraints for trading desks with mark-to-market losses. Our findings suggest that real world frictions impede arbitrage capital.

Author: Eckhard Scharmer
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638258807
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,7 (A-), European Business School - International University Schloß Reichartshausen Oestrich-Winkel (Department for Asset Management), language: English, abstract: The German corporate bond market is, like many other markets, subject to a constant development: New external conditions and changes in our economic environment always trigger new trends that can be observed when analysing the structure of capital markets. Particularly during the last months, a new significant tendency could be observed in Germany: As market statistics indicate, more and more German corporations decide to issue equity-linked securities such as convertible bonds instead of raising capital using straight corporate bonds or equity. Consequently, investors are now faced with a new asset class beyond debt, cash or equity. This implies more opportunities but also bears some risks, problems and pitfalls as each convertible has specific characteristics and covenants which have to be taken into account by the investor. The purpose of this study is to reveal the reasoning behind the growing popularity of convertibles within the German corporate bond landscape. In this context, the consequences and opportunities for the investor are emphasized as the paper shows how asset managers can benefit from the particular characteristics of convertibles. Moreover, the price reaction of the underlying share price on an announcement of a convertible issue will be analysed. In order to avoid a too theoretical approach, two extraordinary equitylinked issues that took place in Germany in 2003 are discussed and compared.

Author: Frank J. Fabozzi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471704334
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The latest theoretical and empirical evidence on short selling in the United States and throughout the world To get the most success out of what the finance community regards as a risky business, short sellers need high-level information. The Theory and Practice of Short Selling offers managers and investors the information they need to maximize and enhance their short selling capabilities for bigger profits. Frank Fabozzi collects a group of market experts who share their knowledge on everything from the basics to the complex in the world of short sales, including mechanics of short selling, the empirical evidence on short-selling, the implications or restrictions on short selling for investment strategies, short-selling strategies pursued by institutional investors, and identifying short-selling candidates. Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA (New Hope, PA), is the Frederick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance at Yale University's School of Management and Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management. He is the author or editor of over 100 books on finance and investing.

Author: Tavy Ronen
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Languages : en
Pages : 44

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This paper examines shifting liquidity in the corporate bond market and illustrates how cross market comparisons can lead to misleading inferences regarding market efficiency when liquidity and trading patterns are ignored. For example, when institutional trade dominance and other bond trading features are accounted for, stock leads evidenced in earlier studies are surprisingly reversed. Moreover, bond prices often fully adjust to news before equity market open. Informational advantages are most pronounced during low equity market liquidity and price discovery periods. Finally, dynamic liquidity patterns give rise to lsquo;top bonds', which are those attracting most institutional sized trades after news and are shown to play an important role in the price discovery process. These bonds shift identity over time but exhibit common ex-ante identifiable characteristics.