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Finance Research Seminar - Antje BERNDT
Antje BERNDT - ANU College of Business & Economics
Tuesday 1 October 2019 (10h30 - 12h00) - Extranef - 126
Dealer Inventory, Short Interest and Price Efficiency in the Corporate Bond Market
We propose an equilibrium model of over-the-counter corporate bond trading with short selling, asymmetric information and dealer inventory costs. The model predicts that higher inventory costs impose implicit short-sale constraints and are thus associated with lower price efficiency.
We construct bond-level proxies for inventory costs and provide empirical evidence in support of the model's prediction. Our findings suggest that tighter post-GFC regulation may have had unintended consequences for corporate bond market quality.
Published 4 July 2019
Finance Department
Finance Department