Whose Asset Sales Matter?

By Rhys M. Bidder, Jamie Coen, Caterina Lepore, Laura Silvetri

August 2, 2024

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Rhys M. Bidder, Jamie Coen, Caterina Lepore, and Laura Silvetri. Whose Asset Sales Matter?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2024) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

Using novel data on bond trading in the UK, we develop a new measure of selling pressure that can be applied to any trader. We identify exogenous selling pressure in a bond using traders’ sales of other, unrelated bonds.The price impact of a sale depends on who is selling: sales by dealers and hedge funds generate significantly larger impacts than equally sized sales by other investors. We rationalise our findings using a model of differentially informed investors. All else equal, our results suggest that more attention should be devoted to risks to financial stability from these impactful sellers.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Bonds, Financial institutions, Hedge funds, Liquidity, Mutual funds, Sovereign bonds

Keywords: Asset sale, Bonds, Financial stability, Fire sales, Fixed income, Hedge funds, Liquidity, Mutual funds, Noise trader, Pressure measure, Price impact, Sales by dealer, Sovereign bonds, Traders' sale

Publication Details

Pages:

49
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Working Paper No. 2024/168
Stock No:

WPIEA2024168
ISBN:

9798400287091
ISSN:

1018-5941

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