making sense out of traditional stock and bond indices

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Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... (in the sense of transaction costs) and \macro liquidity" (in the sense of fund °ows between sectors of the economy) The results indicate that the time series properties of stock and bond liquidity ... between stock and bond quoted spreads Also, stock returns and volatility directly impact the bond spread, while bond returns and volatility a®ect the stock spread indirectly For example, bond returns ... driver of both stock and bond market liquidity 28 ² Unexpected liquidity and volatility shocks are positively and signi¯cantly correlated across stock and bond markets, suggesting that liquidity and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:11

... value weighted stock market return and the Lehman aggregate bond index return are signi¯cantly positively correlated with order °ow We have run our forecasting regressions with and without the market ... n 15 See, for example, Greenspan, 1999, and \Finance and Economics: Alan Greenspan's miracle cure," Economist, October 24, 1998, pp.75-76 and \A Review of Financial Market Events in Autumn 1998," ... trading bets." { Wall Street Journal, November 16, 1998 See also Brennan and Subrahmanyam (1996) and Brennan, Chordia and Subrahmanyam (1998) in g t h a t s p r e a d s a n d d e p t h s o f...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:29

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Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:07

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Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

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Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:21

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Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

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Ngày tải lên: 18/07/2016, 12:42

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Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2017, 20:46

... the formation of a G-quadruplex and i-motif upstream of the Bcl-2 P1 promoter prevents the binding of WT-1 and abrogates the transcriptional repression, thereby allowing activation of Bcl-2 transcription ... loop sizes and base composition (e.g one to seven and bases that have specific interactions), number of tetrads (i.e two, three or four) and inter-quadruplex binding sites in c-Myb and hTERT represents ... identified four classes of quadruplexes (Fig 2) These classes differ in the number of G-quadruplexes that can be formed at one time (1 = Classes I and IV, = Classes II and III) Classes I and IV differ...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

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