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This paper provides a closed-form solution for the price-dividend ratio in a standard asset pricing model with stochastic volatility. The solution is useful in allowing comparisons among numerical methods used to approximate the non-trivial closed-form.
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distinguish between risk- and mispricing-based anomalies. …
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The expansion in financial sector "safe" assets, largely in the form of structured products from the U.S. and the Caribbean, in the lead-up to the global financial crisis has by now been fairly well documented. Using a unique dataset derived from security-level data on U.S. portfolio holdings of...
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controlling for standard risk factors. Liquidity deteriorates on FTS days both in the bond and equity markets. Both economic …
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question. Using Kalman Filter techniques, we estimate the risk exposure dynamics of a large sample of live and dead equity long … is found that more active funds outperform the less active ones. However, when risk adjusted returns are used to measure … use their skills to manage the riskiness of their portfolios and are, therefore, able to provide higher risk adjusted …
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We examine differences in default rates by sector and obligor domicile. We find evidence that credit ratings have been imperfectly calibrated across issuer sectors in the past. Controlling for year of issue and rating, default rates appear to be higher for U.S. financial firms than for U.S....
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portfolio size and degree of risk aversion of potential investors, the ability to borrow, and the hedging opportunities provided …
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"correlation breakdown." As a result, risk managers worry that their hedges will be useless when they are most needed, namely …. We make this point analytically, by way of several numerical examples, and via an empirical illustration. ; But, risk …
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Risk management information systems are designed to overcome the problem of aggregating data across diverse trading … units. The design of an information system depends on the risk measurement methodology that a firm chooses. Inherent in the … design of both a risk management information system and a risk measurement methodology is a tradeoff between the accuracy of …
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