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To explain the existence of stop-loss rules in financial institutions, we develop a principal/agent model, where an investment firm (the principal) has to rely on the expertise of a trader (the agent) to invest in a risky asset (a future contract, say). When the trader faces a limited liability...
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We show that bond purchases undertaken in the context of quantitative easing efforts by the European Central Bank created a large mispricing between the market for German and Italian government bonds and their respective futures contracts. On top of the direct effect the buying pressure exerted...
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We show that bond purchases undertaken in the context of quantitative easing efforts by the European Central Bank created a large mispricing between the market for German and Italian government bonds and their respective futures contracts. On top of the direct effect the buying pressure exerted...
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gains from hedging long-term bonds with interest rate derivatives. These bonds can help develop interest-rate derivative …
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measure its hedging effectiveness. This synthetic Eurocurrency interest rate futures contract is obtained by combining … interest rate parity relationship. In theory, the cash flows of the synthetic contract perfectly replicate the cash flows of a … hedging non-dollar borrowing rates. These results have implications for the practice of hedging non-dollar interest rate risk …
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This article introduces an algorithm for tail risk hedging and compares it to other existing methods. This algorithm … adjusts the exposure level based on a measure of tail risk obtained by applying Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to estimate … 2015 and its performance is compared to cash and options based tail hedging strategies. The cash based methods are shown to …
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measure its hedging effectiveness. This synthetic Eurocurrency interest rate futures contract is obtained by combining … interest rate parity relationship. In theory, the cash flows of the synthetic contract perfectly replicate the cash flows of a … hedging non-dollar borrowing rates. These results have implications for the practice of hedging non-dollar interest rate risk …
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This paper examines the relative information shares of the Bund, i.e. the ten-year Euro bond future contract on German sovereign debt, versus two futures with shorter maturity. We find that the Bund is most important but does not dominate price discovery. The other contracts also have relevant -...
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