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Implications of Asymmetry Risk for Portfolio Analysis and Asset Pricing
Staff Working Paper 2007-47
Fousseni Chabi-Yo,
Dietmar Leisen,
Eric Renault
Asymmetric shocks are common in markets; securities' payoffs are not normally distributed and exhibit skewness. This paper studies the portfolio holdings of heterogeneous agents with preferences over mean, variance and skewness, and derives equilibrium prices.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
C,
C5,
C52,
D,
D5,
D58,
G,
G1,
G11,
G12
Price Discovery in Canadian and U.S. 10-Year Government Bond Markets
Staff Working Paper 2007-43
Bryan Campbell,
Scott Hendry
This paper presents some new results on the price discovery process in both the Canadian and U.S. 10-year Government bond markets using high-frequency data not previously analyzed. Using techniques introduced by Hasbrouck (1995) and Gonzalo-Granger (1995), we look at the relative information content of cash and futures prices in the market for Canadian Government bonds using futures market data from the Montreal Exchange and OTC cash market data reflecting the inter-dealer market covered by CanPx.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G12,
G13,
G14
Family Values: Ownership Structure, Performance and Capital Structure of Canadian Firms
Staff Working Paper 2007-40
Michael R. King,
Eric Santor
This study examines how family ownership affects the performance and capital structure of 613 Canadian firms using a panel dataset from 1998 to 2005.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
International topics
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G12,
G15
April 14, 2007
The Canadian Overnight Market: Recent Evolution and Structural Changes
Since 1997 when the Bank of Canada last published a review of the Canadian overnight market, several important changes have affected the market's structure and dynamics. Reid provides a current overview of the market, examining the financial instruments, market transparency and flows, and the collateralized overnight rate as it has evolved since the introduction of the Large Value Transfer System and the fixed announcement dates. Other significant influences include changes in market practices regarding risk management, the rise of securities lending, the increased demand for collateral, and the Bank of Canada's measures to reinforce the target for the overnight rate.
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Bank of Canada Review articles
Topic(s):
Market structure and pricing,
Monetary policy framework,
Monetary policy implementation
Price Formation and Liquidity Provision in Short-Term Fixed Income Markets
Staff Working Paper 2007-27
Chris D'Souza,
Ingrid Lo,
Stephen Sapp
Differences in market structures may affect the manner in which fundamental information is incorporated into prices. High levels of quote and trade transparency plus substantial quoting obligations in European government securities markets ensure that prices are informationally efficient.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Financial markets,
Interest rates,
Market structure and pricing
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G12,
G14,
G15
Managing Adverse Dependence for Portfolios of Collateral in Financial Infrastructures
Staff Working Paper 2007-25
Alejandro García,
Ramazan Gençay
We propose a framework that allows a portfolio manager to quantify the probability of simultaneous losses in multiple assets of a collateral portfolio. Using this framework, we propose a methodology to conduct stress tests on the market value of the portfolio of collateral when undesirable extreme dependence occurs.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial markets,
Financial stability
JEL Code(s):
C,
C1,
C10,
G,
G0,
G00,
G1,
G10
Order Aggressiveness and Quantity: How Are They Determined in a Limit Order Market?
Staff Working Paper 2007-23
Ingrid Lo,
Stephen Sapp
Dealers trading in a limit order market must choose both the order aggressiveness and the quantity for their orders. We empirically investigate how dealers jointly make these decisions in the foreign exchange market using a unique simultaneous equations model.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Exchange rates,
Financial markets
JEL Code(s):
G,
G1,
G14
A No-Arbitrage Analysis of Macroeconomic Determinants of Term Structures and the Exchange Rate
Staff Working Paper 2007-21
Fousseni Chabi-Yo,
Jun Yang
We study the joint dynamics of macroeconomic variables, bond yields, and the exchange rate in an empirical two-country New-Keynesian model complemented with a no-arbitrage term structure model. With Canadian and US data, we are able to study the impact of macroeconomic shocks from both countries on their yield curves and the exchange rate.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Debt management,
Econometric and statistical methods,
Exchange rates,
Financial markets,
Interest rates
JEL Code(s):
E,
E1,
E12,
E4,
E43,
F,
F4,
F41,
G,
G1,
G12,
G15
Multivariate Realized Stock Market Volatility
Staff Working Paper 2007-20
Gregory Bauer,
Keith Vorkink
We present a new matrix-logarithm model of the realized covariance matrix of stock returns. The model uses latent factors which are functions of both lagged volatility and returns.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Econometric and statistical methods,
Financial markets
JEL Code(s):
C,
C3,
C32,
C5,
C53,
G,
G1,
G14