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also more exotic features such as combinations of single and double barriers. Price properties and hedging issues are …
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We consider the problem of option hedging in a market with proportional transaction costs. Since super-replication is … very costly in such markets, we replace perfect hedging with an expected loss constraint. Asymptotic analysis for small …
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We compare the performance of various hedging strategies for index collateralized debt obligation (CDO) tranches across … a variety of models and hedging methods during the recent credit crisis. Our empirical analysis shows evidence for …-dimensional bottom-up models perform better than simpler top-down models. When it comes to hedging, top-down and regression-based hedging …
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Lynn Stout's paper develops an insightful legal-economic analysis of speculative trading. From one hand, the paper discusses the legal-economic framework of speculation and its recent transformation, making reference to the case of derivatives markets crash (and related financial crisis) of...
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Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...
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Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...
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tax compliance decisions, we have conducted a laboratory experiment in which we introduced two types of inequities. The …
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This paper tests whether individual perceptions of markets as good or bad for a public good is correlated with the propensity to report gaps in willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) revealed within an incentive compatible mechanism. Identifying people based on a notion of...
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This paper tests whether individual perceptions of markets as good or bad for a public good is correlated with the propensity to report gaps in willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) revealed within an incentive compatible mechanism. Identifying people based on a notion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930167
A review shows that contingent valuation (CV) studies implemented in developing countries are generally used to measure demands (for water, sanitation or health services) and neglect the valuation of nonmarket goods (like ecosystems, biodiversity, or environmental amenities). These studies also...
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