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This paper examines the major changes in the Canadian banking system since the Second World War, with special attention paid to the differences between Canadian and US developments over this period. An important difference between the countries is the nationwide branch banking arrangements in...
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Understanding the nature of credit risk has important implications for financial stability. Since authorities notably … difficulty lies in finding reliable measures of aggregate credit risk in the economy, as opposed to firmlevel credit risk. In … the type of risk priced in corporate bonds (i.e., credit or liquidity risk). However, although the two models provide …
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derivatives markets. CoMargin depends on both the tail risk of a given market participant and its interdependence with other … risk concerns associated with them. CoMargin can be estimated using a model-free and scenario-based methodology, validated …
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Using the prices of crude oil futures contracts, we construct the term structure of crude oil convenience yields out to one-year maturity. The crude oil convenience yield can be interpreted as the interest rate, denominated in barrels of oil, for borrowing a single barrel of oil, and it measures...
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risk-neutral volatilities is a function of the risk premium and of skewness. In fact, the equity premium is twice the ratio …
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Expected returns vary when investors face time-varying investment opportunities. Longrun risk models (Bansal and Yaron … 2004) and no-arbitrage affine models (Duffie, Pan, and Singleton 2000) emphasize sources of risk that are not observable to … the econometrician. We show that, for both classes of models, the term structure of risk implicit in option prices can …
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implemented using timely and low-cost methods. The authors explore two models applied to option prices to extract the risk …
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loan and an implied risk premium. …
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In this paper we look at the relative information content of cash and futures prices for Canadian Government bonds. We follow the information-share approaches introduced by Hasbrouck (1995) and Harris et al (1995), applying the techniques in Gonzalo-Granger (1995), to evaluate the relative...
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related to the risk associated with holding financial securities. Correct specification of diffusion functions is crucial in …
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