Author: Jeng-Hong ChenPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Three Essays on Short-term Interest Rate and Indexed Bond Markets
Author: Jeng-Hong ChenThree Essays on Short-term Interest Rate and Indexed Bond Markets
Author: Jeng-Hong ChenThree Essays on the Interaction of Monetary Policy and Long-term Interest Rates
Author: Yuan XiaoThree Essays on International Stock and Bond Markets
Author: DongJoon JeongEssays on Bond Markets
Author: Luis CeballosPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This dissertation contains three chapters on the topic of bond markets. The first chapter examines the pricing of inflation volatility risk --uncertainty on the unexpected component of inflation-- in the cross-section of expected corporate bond returns. I document a negative and significant inflation volatility risk premium (IVRP) obtained from the difference between high and low-inflation beta portfolios after accounting for common risk factors in the equity and corporate bond markets. Further, I find that the IVRP is partially explained by market risk and alternative measures of monetary policy shocks. Lastly, I show that the IVRP is associated with firms that incur in debt maturity management to mitigate refinancing risks. The second chapter analyzes the systemic impact of massive pension funds' portfolio reallocations triggered by a financial advisory firm in Chile. We analyze the main channels by which government yields are affected and trace their impact on households financing costs. We document significant and persistent price pressure in the domestic government bond market after portfolio switching recommendations. Further, we find persistent changes in government yields, particularly in long-term inflation-linked bond yields, triggered by changes in the term premium component. Consistent with the relevance of inflation-linked bonds as the primary benchmark in setting interest rates, we find a substantial impact on households' financing costs. The third chapter focuses on financing decisions in the floating bond market. We use floating rate bond offerings and data from interest rate swaps to study the impact of firms' financing decisions. A trading strategy that is long the stock of firms that make smart decisions and short the stock of firms that make non-smart decisions earns a significant alpha relative to the three-factor, four-factor, and five-factor asset pricing models. Our results remain significant even after controlling for swap usage, different stock holding periods, operating performance hedging, and a quality minus junk factor. Both smart and non-smart firms experience jumps in abnormal investor attention around floating bond issuance dates, but smart firms on average experience greater overall abnormal attention with lower attention volatility.
The Great Inflation
Author: Michael D. BordoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226066959
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.
Three Essays in Credit Risk
Author: Gordon DelianedisPublisher:
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Category : Credit
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization
Author: Augusto de la TorrePublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821365444
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in Latin America. Unfortunately, they are now faced with disheartening results. Stock and bond markets remain illiquid and segmented. Debt is concentrated at the short end of the maturity spectrum and denominated in foreign currency, exposing countries to maturity and currency risk. Capital markets in Latin America look particularly underdeveloped when considering the many efforts undertaken to improve the macroeconomic environment and to reform the institutions believed to foster capital market development. The disappointing performance has made conventional policy recommendations questionable, at best. 'Emerging Capital Markets and Globalization' analyzes where we stand and where we are heading on capital market development. First, it takes stock of the state and evolution of Latin American capital markets and related reforms over time and relative to other countries. Second, it analyzes the factors related to the development of capital markets, with particular interest on measuring the impact of reforms. And third, in light of this analysis, it discusses the prospects for capital market development in Latin America and emerging economies and the implications for the reform agenda.
The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions
Author: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve SystemPublisher:
ISBN: 9780894991967
Category : Banks and Banking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides an in-depth overview of the Federal Reserve System, including information about monetary policy and the economy, the Federal Reserve in the international sphere, supervision and regulation, consumer and community affairs and services offered by Reserve Banks. Contains several appendixes, including a brief explanation of Federal Reserve regulations, a glossary of terms, and a list of additional publications.