Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020ECO002.
My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on a different area of research in asset pricing. The first chapter deals with the informational role of brokerage firms during fire sales in the equity market. The second chapter exploits the ETF program by the bank of Japan as a quasi-natural experiment to measure the slope of the equity demand curve. The last chapter presents...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004ECO008.
Large-block trades have been typically handled over the counter in the upstairs market. Institutional trading raises several issues of concern, such as the fragmentation of order flow, potential liquidity shortage in the downstairs market, and implications for market efficiency. Large investors’ trades may infact produce a price impact that can adversely influence their investment decisions....
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005 ; 2005ECO004.
This study develops new realized volatility and correlation estimators which, while fully exploiting all the available information contained in tick-by-tick data, effectively correct for the bias induced by microstructure effects. Building on such high frequency measures, it also proposes new conditional volatility models able to provide accurate and easy-to-implement volatility forecasts.
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