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withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of systematic financial and longevity risks. Partly because of … pension: the Personal Pension with Risk sharing (PPR). By unbundling and valuing the investment, (dis)saving, insurance and … risk-sharing functions of pensions, PPRs allow risk management and (dis)saving to be customized to the specific features of …
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hedger, guided by the traditional minimum-variance criterion, aims at reducing the risk of a non-tradable asset or a … generalized "Greeks," familiar in risk management applications, as well as retaining the intuitive features of their static …
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increasing, or conversely its willingness to provide term lending is decreasing, in its rollover risk over the term of the loan …
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We develop a dynamic model of investment, cash holdings, financing, and risk management policies in which firms face …-flow sensitivity of cash display a more realistic behavior than in prior models with financing frictions. In addition, risk management …
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This article introduces a method to quantify the effect of a firm’s strategic choices on the risk profile of its … profits at different horizons. We combine a demand system for differentiated products with counterfactual paths of risk … factors. Prices, costs and quantities respond endogenously to the counterfactual state of the world. The draws on risk factors …
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We study three cases in which specialized arbitrageurs lost significant amounts of capital and, as a result, became liquidity demanders rather than providers. The effects on security markets were large and persistent: Prices dropped relative to fundamentals and the rebound took months. While...
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We investigate the question of whether sophistication in risk management fosters banking stability. We compare a simple … default risk of entrepreneurs individually. Both banking systems compete for deposits, loans, and bank equity. While a … equity and finances more entrepreneurs. Expected repayments in a simple system are always higher and its default risk is …
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We analyse the demand for hedging and insurance by a firm that faces liquidity risk. The firm's optimal liquidity … reserves exceed this threshold. We study how this liquidity management policy interacts with two types of risk: a Brownian risk … that can be hedged through a financial derivative, and a Poisson risk that can be insured by an insurance contract. We find …
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This Paper studies predatory trading: trading that induces and/or exploits other investors’ need to reduce their positions. We show that if one trader needs to sell, others also sell and subsequently buy back the asset. This leads to price overshooting and a reduced liquidation value for the...
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Copulas offer financial risk managers a powerful tool to model the dependence between the different elements of a … an accurate copula for risk management. We extend standard goodness-of-fit tests to copulas. Contrary to existing … extreme downward movements, while the Gumbel copula overestimates this risk. Similarly we establish that the Gaussian copula …
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