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This paper studies recurring annual events potentially introducing seasonality into gold prices. We analyze gold … statistically significant gold price changes. This “autumn effect” holds unconditionally and conditional on several risk factors. We … stock market, wedding season gold jewelery demand in India and negative investor sentiment due to shorter daylight time. The …
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Although the link between oil prices and dollar exchange rates has been frequently analyzed, a clear distinction between prices and nominal exchange rate dynamics and a clarification of the issue of causality has not been provided. In addition, previous studies have mostly neglected...
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curve, the price Phillips curve, and Okun's law when forecasting macroeconomic variables. This result is robust when using …
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This study examines gold’s contribution to portfolio risk over different time scales. The analysis is based on wavelet … decompositions of the variances and covariances associated with a portfolio that includes gold, stocks, 10-year government bonds and … three-month Treasury bills. The results suggest that gold provides the lowest contribution to portfolio risk only when …
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The hedge and safe haven properties of gold in advanced economies’ financial markets are well documented in the … aims to fill this gap by empirically analyzing the hedge and safe haven properties of gold against equity market investment … also check whether our findings differ in the post-global crisis period. Our results show that for domestic investors, gold …
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A key issue in the estimation of energy hedges is the hedgers' attitude towards risk which is encapsulated in the form of the hedgers' utility function. However, the literature typically uses only one form of utility function such as the quadratic when estimating hedges. This paper addresses...
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We examine the ability of one- and two-factor regime switching models to describe US, developed, and emerging market mutual fund returns. We find that a two-factor fixed transition probability model adequately describes the multivariate series of mutual fund returns without the need to model...
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We investigate the oil price risk exposure of the U.S. Travel and Leisure industry. In this paper, we utilize the Fama–French–Carhart's (1997) four-factor asset pricing model augmented with oil price risk factor. The results of our study suggest that oil price sensitivities vary...
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