Market liquidity: proceedings of a workshop held at the BIS

BIS Papers No 2
April 2001

 
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List of workshop participants iii
Session I - Stock markets
Overview: market structure issues in market liquidity:
Maureen O'Hara (Cornell University)
1
Events that shook the market:
Ray C Fair (Yale University)
9
Comments:
    Eloy Lindeijer (De Nederlandsche Bank)
25
    Giuseppe Grande (Banca d'Italia) 27
Information flows during the Asian crisis: evidence from closed-end funds:
Benjamin H Cohen and Eli M Remolona (Bank for International Settlements)
30
Comments:
    Tatsuya Yonetani (Bank of Japan)
71
    Torben G Andersen (Northwestern University) 73
Session II - Bond markets
Estimating liquidity premia in the Spanish Government securities market:
Francisco Alonso, Roberto Blanco, Ana del Río and Alicia Sanchís (Banco de España)
79
Comments:
    Christian Upper (Deutsche Bundesbank)
108
    Oreste Tristani (European Central Bank) 110
Does market transparency matter? A case study:
Antonio Scalia and Valerio Vacca (Banca d'Italia)
113
Comments:
    Agnes Van den Berge (Banque Nationale de Belgique)
141
    Peter Rappoport (JP Morgan) 143
Special session - Panel discussion
Short introduction on the work of the Johnson group:
Eloy Lindeijer (De Nederlandsche Bank)
147
Market liquidity under stress: observations from the FX market:
Francis Breedon (Lehman Brothers)
149
The puzzling decline in financial market liquidity:
Avinash Persaud (State Street)
152
Measuring liquidity under stress:
Christian Upper (Deutsche Bundesbank)
159
Session III - Foreign exchange markets
Order flow and exchange rate dynamics:
Martin D D Evans (Georgetown) and Richard K Lyons (University of California, Berkley)
165
Comments:
    Eric Jondeau (Banque de France)
192
    Robert N McCauley (Bank for International Settlements) 194
Trading volumes, volatility and spreads in FX markets: evidence from emerging market countries:
Gabriele Galati (Bank for International Settlements)
197
Comments:
    Javiera Ragnartz (Sveriges Riksbank)
226
    Alain Chaboud (Federal Reserve System) 229
Other papers
Sending the herd off the cliff edge: the disturbing interaction between herding and market-sensitive risk management practices:
Avinash Persaud (State Street)
233
How safe was the "Safe Haven"? Financial market liquidity during the 1998 turbulences:
Christian Upper (Deutsche Bundesbank)
241
FX impact of cross-border M & A:
Francis Breedon and Francesca Fornasari (Lehman Brothers)
267