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volatility of futures prices. The Granger-causality tests suggest that speculative investments usually follow � rather than … associated with lower volatility of futures returns, while that of swap dealers is sometimes followed by higher price variations. …
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effect on the conditional volatility of these variables. The analysis spans a period of great financial and political …
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From a financial standpoint, the mechanics of the carry trade has been recently examined in Brunnermeier et al. (2009). They showed that shocks to interest rate differentials lead to carry trade activity and to significant reactions in the bilateral exchange rates vis-a-vis the US dollar that...
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This paper explores the implications of systemic risk in Credit Structured Finance (CSF). Risk measurement issues loomed large during the 2007-08 financial crisis, as the massive, unprecedented number of downgrades of AAA senior bond tranches inflicted severe losses on banks, calling into...
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Theory suggests that uninsurable income risk induces individuals to accumulate assets as a precautionary reserve of value. Most assets, however, bear rate of return risk, that can be diversified only if every asset is traded by a large number of individuals and arbitrage is frictionless. Using...
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point in time, the parameters of the model are estimated by minimizing the sum of squared implied volatility errors, and … their informational content is compared with the widely used Black and Scholes implied volatility, calculated on at … periods of high variability of asset prices the jump-diffusion approach may help to disentangle the cases in which volatility …
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show that the US and the euro area displayed a limited but significant spillover of volatility from money market to longer … empirical evidence to show that the transmission of overnight volatility along the yield curve had entirely vanished. …
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This paper analyses the price discovery process and the informational role of trading in the Italian wholesale secondary markets for Treasury bonds: the B2B MTS cash and the B2C BondVision trading venues. Using daily data for a representative set of fixed rate government bonds over the period...
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Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007, the level and volatility of Euribor � OIS differentials have …
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We examine the public debt management problem with respect to the maturity mix of new issues in a mean-variance framework. After identifying the main determinants of the long-run target (strategy), we focus on which interest rate conditions allow for a temporary deviation (tactics). The study is...
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