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Bellalah, Mondher; El Farissi, Inass - Université Paris-Dauphine

This paper presents a simple framework for the use of traditional capital budgeting models and the valuation of several … analysis extends the models in Bellalah (1999, 2001) for the valuation of real options within information uncertainty. We … present valuation models and simulations for the values of common real options in the presence of shadow costs of incomplete …

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High-Speed Natural Selection in Financial Markets with Large State Spaces

Fedyk, Yuriy; Walden, Johan - Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) - 2007

Recent research has suggested that natural selection in financial markets may be a very slow process, taking hundreds of years. We show in a general equilibrium model that it may be much faster in markets with large state spaces. In many cases, the time it takes to wipe out irrational investors...

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Hedging, Familiarity and Portfolio Choice

Massa, Massimo; Simonov, Andrei - Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) - 2004

We exploit the restrictions of intertemporal portfolio choice in the presence of non-financial income risk to design and implement tests of hedging that use the information contained in the actual portfolio of the investor. We use a unique dataset of Swedish investors with information broken...

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Simulated nonparametric estimation of dynamic models with applications to finance

Altissimo, Filippo; Mele, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper introduces a new class of parameter estimators for dynamic models, called Simulated Nonparametric Estimators (SNE). The SNE minimizes appropriate distances between nonparametric joint (or conditional) densities estimated from sample data and nonparametric joint (or conditional)...

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Empirical evaluation of asset pricing models: arbitrage and pricing errors over contingent claims

Wang, Zhenyu; Zhang, Xiaoyan - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2006

negative and thus offer arbitrage opportunities. …

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Inference, arbitrage, and asset price volatility

Adrian, Tobias - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2004

This paper models the impact of arbitrageurs on stock prices when arbitrageurs are uncertain about the drift of the dividend process of a risky asset. Under perfect information, the presence of risk-neutral arbitrageurs unambiguously reduces the volatility of asset returns. When arbitrageurs are...

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