Univerzita Karlova v Praze Fakulta sociálních věd Institut ekonomických studií Název disertační práce/ Dissertation title Interest Rate Risk and Liquidity Risk of Banking Books in the Czech Republic Anglický překlad / Title in English Interest Rate Risk and Liquidity Risk of Banking Books in the Czech Republic Autor/ka/ Author Mag. Hana Džmuráňová Rok zpracování/ Year 2021 Školitel / Advisor Doc. Ing. Zdeněk Tůma CSc. Počet stran / No. of pages 197 Abstract in English The thesis Interest Rate Risk and Liquidity Risk of Banking Books in the Czech Republic deals with the management of interest rate risk and liquidity risk stemming from the core banking system purpose - the maturity transformation. Across five articles, we provide comprehensive theoretical description, regulatory background, and develop models for embedded behavioural options of client products such as non-maturity deposits, with special focus on savings accounts in the Czech Republic in one of our case studies, or loans with prepayment option. We apply our models on the major Czech and Slovak banks and we calculate the exposure of those banks to interest rate risk in terms of regulatory guidelines. We derive that all banks in our analysis are positioned to benefit when interest rates increase as demand deposits like current accounts are...

Emerging ESG studies have established a negative equilibrium correlation between ESG factors and stock returns in an economy predominately influenced by investors with nonpecuniary preference over high ESG credentials. However, little research has delved into a potential systematic liquidity risk phenomenon associated with aggregate trading activities of ESG-motivated investors who share a common nonzero ESG preference component in their utility function. Focusing on the carbon footprint metric of ESG factors, this thesis aims to investigate the potential existence of an ESG-specific component in liquidity commonality among equities listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, with a key assumption being that the average investor active on the Swedish equity market is cognizant of emission data and willing to forgo financial returns for positive externalities. Using a calibrated portfolio sorting technique and a set of time series regression models, the thesis uncovers novel evidence of liquidity synchronicity among ESG-unfavorable stocks. Additionally, the results indicate that liquidity dynamics of ESG frontrunners tend to be reflective of firm level characteristics. These findings remain robust even after controlling for market-wide driving forces, industry effects, and nonsynchronous liquidity co-movements etc. Investors prioritizing climate efforts may have tilted their capital away from emission laggards which give rise to a “flight to climate” effect on stock liquidity synchronicity among brown equities. Their resultant constrained investor base may lead to simultaneous liquidity oscillation as observed. Notwithstanding, the thesis does not measure explicit mechanisms through which ESG factors impact stock liquidity commonality, leaving this as a topic for future research.

Dividend policy, its determinants, and its impact on firm value are of significant academic interest, and many theories and explanations have been posited on the subject over the years, but there has not been a universal agreement. This thesis examines the links between dividend policy, various aspects of stock liquidity and price informativeness. We study a sample of UK firms over the period from 1996-2013. We show that, on average, stocks of dividend payers have significantly lower bid–ask spread and a lower illiquidity ratio than their counterparts of non-dividend payers. We also find that stocks of high-dividend payers are more liquid than those of firms that pay low or no dividends. These findings are consistent with the predictions of asymmetric information that posit that paying dividends reveals inside information to the market and hence decreases the level of asymmetric information, leading to higher stock liquidity. In the subsequent analysis, we suggest and examine a new channel through which dividend policy can impact firm value. Specifically, we show that dividend payers are less exposed to shocks in the aggregate market liquidity than non-dividend payers. Similarly, we find that the systematic liquidity risk is negatively associated with amount of dividends. Finally, in the context of signalling and agency costs models, we show that dividends are negatively related to stock price informativeness and that this relationship is stronger for firms with lower stock liquidity. The findings imply that dividend policy can both affect and be affected by stock markets. / University of Bradford

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Yes / The study examines the impact of liquidity risk on freight derivatives returns. The Amihud liquidity ratio and bid–ask spreads are utilized to assess the existence of liquidity risk in the freight derivatives market. Other macroeconomic variables are used to control for market risk. Results indicate that liquidity risk is priced and both liquidity measures have a significant role in determining freight derivatives returns. Consistent with expectations, both liquidity measures are found to have positive and significant effects on the returns of freight derivatives. The results have important implications for modeling freight derivatives, and consequently, for trading and risk management purposes.

Yes / We develop an intensity-based model of municipal yields, making simultaneous use of the CDS premiums of the insurers and both insured and uninsured municipal bond transactions. We estimate the model individually for 61 municipal issuers by exploiting the dramatic decline in credit quality of the bond insurers from July 2007 to June 2008, and decompose the municipal yield spread based on the estimated parameters. The decomposition reveals a dominant role of the liquidity component as well as interactions between liquidity and default similar to those modeled by Chen et al. (2016) for corporate bonds. Towards the end of the sample period, our model also reproduces the "yield inversion" phenomenon documented by Bergstresser et al. (2010).

Our thesis aims to help the market participants to understand the source of the risk in green bonds market. We estimate the liquidity risk effects in green bonds' yield spreads as well as controlling for credit risk, bond-specific chracteristics and macroeconomic variables. Both of our liquidity measures suggest that green bonds are more liquid than investment grade US corporate bonds. We find that liquidity effect in green bonds' yield spreads is pronounced, and the result is robust after controlling for potential endogeneity bias. The power of green bonds' liquidity premium is about 10 to 100 times as strong as speculative grade German bonds and investment grade US corporate bonds respectively. In addition to the lack of clear risk profile in green bonds market, our three-stage least squares regression shows that credit risk influences the liquidity risk of green bonds, this indicates that credit risk is a potential source of private information that affects the high liquidity of green bonds. This result has an implication for policy as the credit risk and liquidity risk could be the pitfalls in green bonds market.

L'objectif de cette thèse est de fournir une évaluation de l'importance des caractéristiques du réseau bancaire pour expliquer la prise de décision des banques soumises à différents scénarios de politiques macroprudentielles et monétaires. Cette thèse examine donc les implications de la topologie des réseaux interbancaires pour la réglementation du capital et de la liquidité des banques et pour les politiques monétaires. Le premier chapitre examine comment les banques définissent leurs ratios de liquidité en fonction de la topologie de leur réseau sur le marché interbancaire. Nos résultats montrent que la prise en compte les connexions bancaires au sein d'un réseau améliore significativement les modèles de liquidité traditionnels. De plus, nous montrons que les banques fixent un ratio de liquidité plus bas lorsqu'elles ont un accès plus facile au marché interbancaire. Nos résultats soulignent également que le comportement en termes de liquidité des banques de tailles différentes ou des banques opérant dans différents systèmes bancaires pourrait varier en fonction de leurs positions interbancaires locales ou à l'échelle du système. Le deuxième chapitre analyse la réaction des prix des actions des banques aux annonces de politiques monétaires en fonction de leur position sur le marché interbancaire. Nos résultats montrent que la prise en compte de la manière dont les banques sont liées au sein d’un réseau contribue à l’explication de la réaction des prix de leurs actions à l’annonce des politiques monétaires. Nos résultats suggèrent qu'une position de réseau solide à l'échelle du système augmente les réactions positives à de telles annonces de politiques, alors qu'une position de réseau locale forte les réduit. Le troisième chapitre examine comment les effets de substitution de la liquidité sur le capital sont influencés par la position de la banque sur le marché interbancaire. Nous montrons que l’effet de substitution de la liquidité sur le capital est atténué si les banques sont fortement interconnectées dans le réseau interbancaire. Nos résultats suggèrent qu'en période de crise, les grandes banques non liquides détiennent un ratio de fonds propres élevé uniquement lorsqu'elles occupent une position faible sur le réseau interbancaire au niveau local ou à l'échelle du système, tandis que les petites banques non liquides renforcent leur solvabilité lorsqu'elles comptent un plus grand nombre d'emprunteurs directs . / The aim of this dissertation is to provide an evaluation of the importance of the bank network characteristics in explaining bank decision making under different macroprudential and monetary policy scenarios. This study examines, therefore, the implication of interbank network topology for bank capital and liquidity regulation and for monetary policies. The first chapter investigates how banks set their liquidity ratios depending on their network topology in the interbank market. Our results show that incorporating bank connections within a network adds value to traditional liquidity models. Moreover, we show that banks set lower liquidity ratios when they have easier access to the interbank market. Our findings also highlight that liquidity behavior of banks with different size, or banks that are operating in different banking sectors could vary depending on their local or system-wide interbank positions. The second chapter analyses the reaction of bank stock prices to the announcements of monetary policies depending on their position on the interbank market. Our results show that taking into account the way that banks are linked to each other within a network adds value to explain bank stock prices reaction to the announcement of monetary policies. Our findings suggest that strong system-wide network position increases the positive reactions to such policy announcements while strong local network position reduces them. The third chapter examines how the substitution effect of liquidity on capital are influenced by bank network position on the interbank market. We show that the substitution effect of liquidity on capital is dampened if banks are strongly interconnected in the interbank network. Our findings suggest that during crisis periods, illiquid large banks set higher capital ratio only when they have a weak local or system-wide position on the interbank network while illiquid small banks strengthen their solvency when they have a higher number of direct borrowers in that network.

This thesis consists of three chapters and investigates the issues related to liquidity risk, credit market contagion, and corporate cash holdings. The first chapter is coauthored work with Professor Jay Sa-Aadu and Associate Professor Ashish Tiwari and is titled ‘Market Liquidity, Funding Liquidity, and Hedge Fund Performance.’ The second chapter is sole-authored and is titled ‘Credit Market Contagion and Liquidity Shocks.’ The third chapter is coauthored with Steven Savoy and titled ‘Ambiguity Aversion and Corporate Cash Holdings.’ The first chapter examines the interaction between hedge funds’ performance and their market liquidity risk and funding liquidity risk. Using a 2-state Markov regime switching model we identify regimes with low and high market-wide liquidity. While funds with high market liquidity risk exposures earn a premium in the high liquidity regime, this premium vanishes in the low liquidity states. Moreover, funding liquidity risk, measured by the sensitivity of a hedge fund’s return to the Treasury-Eurodollar (TED) spread, is an important determinant of fund performance. Hedge funds with high loadings on the TED spread underperform low-loading funds by about 0.49% (10.98%) annually in the high (low) liquidity regime, during 1994-2012. The second chapter provides evidence on credit market contagion using CDS index data and identifies the channels through which contagion propagates in credit markets. The results show that funding liquidity and market liquidity are significant channels of contagion during periods with widening credit spreads and adverse liquidity shocks. These results provide support for the theoretical model proposed by Brunnermeier and Pedersen (2009) according to which negative liquidity spirals can lead to contagion across various asset classes. Furthermore, during periods with tightening credit spreads and positive liquidity shocks, the results indicate that a prime broker index and a bank index are important channels contributing to co-movement in credit spreads. This suggests that financial intermediaries play an important role in spreading market rallies across credit markets. The third chapter investigates the link between investors’ ambiguity aversion and precautionary corporate cash holdings. Investors’ ambiguity aversion is measured by the proportion of individual investors in a firm’s investor base who are hypothesized to be more ambiguity averse compared to institutional investors. We show that the value of cash holdings is negatively associated with the extent of ambiguity aversion in a firm’s shareholder base for firms that are financially constrained. Our results also show that financially constrained firms with a higher proportion of ambiguity averse investors hold less cash. These results provide support for models in which ambiguity averse investors dislike the cash holdings of firms, that are held for precautionary reasons to fund long term projects, given that the returns on long term projects are ambiguous.

O objetivo desta dissertação é desenvolver um modelo de gestão de risco de liquidez que flexibilize as principais simplificações geralmente realizadas pelas instituições financeiras na aplicação de testes de estresse para gerenciamento do risco de liquidez. Assim, esta pesquisa consiste em estimar um fluxo de caixa unificado de uma instituição sob diferentes cenários econômicos, testando se as volatilidades implícitas das opções são um bom indicador de mudanças significativas no mercado de capitais brasileiro, como quebras de correlações históricas e avaliando o efeito da utilização de um deslocamento não paralelo da Estrutura a Termo da Taxa de Juros na aplicação de um teste de estresse. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos, desenvolveu-se uma pesquisa exploratória através do método de estudo de casos. Para isto, este trabalho utilizou um modelo de análise fatorial para avaliar os movimentos da estrutura a termo da taxa de juros brasileira, além de uma ferramenta prática para capturar as informações fornecidas pela volatilidade implícita e uma matriz de correlação entre as variáveis do cenário econômico utilizado para o teste de estresse. Concluiu-se que: i) a realização de um ajuste no cenário econômico em função da matriz de correlação de suas variáveis contribui para a coerência desse teste com seu contexto econômico, sensibilizando significativamente os valores dos fluxos de caixa futuros das instituições financeiras; ii) os resultados da análise fatorial indicam que a aplicação de um deslocamento não paralelo da ETTJ tem pouca importância prática para a melhoria da coerência dos testes de estresse, em função da grande concentração de poder explicativo da sua variabilidade em torno do fator nível e do baixo poder explicativo dos fatores inclinação e curvatura, principalmente nos vértices iniciais; iii) a volatilidade implícita pode ser utilizada como um proxy da volatilidade futura, apesar das suas limitações. Com a aplicação do modelo em uma instituição financeira, foi sugerido um grid de decisão a ser utilizado no gerenciamento do risco de liquidez. / The aim of this dissertation is to develop a framework for liquidity risk management that relaxes the main simplifications made by financial institutions when using stress tests to manage their liquidity risk. This research consists of an estimatate of a financial institution cash flow under different scenarios, testing if option´s implied volatilities are a good proxy for significant future changes in the brazilian capital market (like historical correlations shifts) and evaluating the use of a non-parallel yield curve shift for the stress test process. To reach the desired objectives, it was developed an exploratory research through the study case method. This work, therefore, uses a factor analysis model to evaluate the Brazilian yield curve term structure movements, a practical tool to capture the information provided by implied volatility and a correlation matrix among the scenario variables used for stress testing. The conclusions were: i) the correlation adjusted scenario adds coherence to the stress test process; ii) a non-parallel yield curve shift adds little coherence, because most of its variance can be explained by the factor level and only a few can be explained by the factors slope and curvature; iii) the option´s implied volatility can be used as a proxy for the future volatility. After the use of this model in a financial instituition cash flow, a decision grid was developed to be used in the liquidity risk management.