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0 We would like to thank Gurdip Bakshi, Nikunj Kapadia and Robert Tompkins for kindly sharing their data sets. We also thank seminar participants at Stanford University and Steve Figlewski for comments on a previous version of this paper. The second author is supported by an Advanced Fellowship from the EPSRC. The third author acknowledges partial financial support from DAAD, EPSRC and KWI.

∗Corresponding author: Pascal François, HEC Montreal, Department of Finance, 3000 Cote-SteCatherine, H3T 2A7 Montreal, Canada. Mail to: [email protected]. We thank ING for kindly providing us with CTRS data, and Laurent Bodson for excellent research assistance. Financial supports from SSHRC (François) and Deloitte Luxemburg (Hübner) are gratefully acknowledged. All remaining errors are ours.