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price volatility and “sentiment” fluctuations. We construct a general-equilibrium model of sentiment. In it, there are two …
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We show that the volatility of a price process, which is usuallyregarded as an impediment to financial growth, can serve …
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This paper studies modelling and existence issues for market models of stochastic implied volatility in a continuous … we give explicit examples of volatility coefficients satisfying the required assumptions. …
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This paper provides regime-switching stochastic volatility extensions of the LIBOR market model. First, the … instantaneous forward LIBOR volatility is modulated by a continuous time homogeneous Markov chain. In a second parameterization, the … volatility is modelled by a square root process with a regime-switching reference level. We obtain analytical solutions for the …
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adjusted to the volatility structure. The proposed approach leads to an efficient and exible constron met for trinomial trees …
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derivatives are mostly uncorrelated, advocating the presence of unspanned volatility. This letter shows that their results can be … explained in the framework of a Gaussian HJM model with humped term-structure volatility. This implies that hedging interest …
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On financial markets many investment decisions are taken by groups and not by individuals. The evidence, however, whether groups better than individuals, is ambigous. We analyze the portfolios of groups and individuals in an asset allocation task on an experimental market. We find that groups on...
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This paper analyzes the effects that uncertainty about economic fundamentalshas on aggregate trading volume. First, the trading volume of an investor facinga standard consumption portfolio choice problem is derived. It is found that if theparameters describing the investment opportunity set...
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In this paper we show that reputation formation in endogenously formed relationships is a decisive determinant for the existence and performance of credit markets. In theabsence of any third party enforcement of debt repayment the contracting parties succeed in establishing stable bilateral...
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This paper proposes a theory of investment fluctuations where the source of the oscillating dynamics is an agency problem between financiers and entrepreneurs. A central tenet of the theory is that investment decisions depend upon entrepreneurs’ initiative to select investment projects...
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