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This paper analyzes the relation between agency conflicts and risk management in a contingent claims model of the firm … issued. The paper also examines managers risk-shifting incentives and provides an analysis of the benefits associated with … risk management in different economic enviromnents. …
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This paper analyzes the expected life-time utility and the hedging demands in an exchange only, representative agent general equilibrium under incomplete information. We derive an expression for the investor’s expected life-time utility, and analyze his hedging demands for intertemporal changes...
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Three types of agents acting on different information sets are considered: fully informed agents, insiders, and outsiders. Differences in information quality are shown to affect the properties of their optimal portfolios. For an outsider, the share of wealth invested in the stock is decreasing...
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This paper develops a quantitative framework for analyzing the impact of macroeconomic conditions on credit risk and …
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In this paper, we show that coherent upper and lower previsions as well as coherent risk measures are only meaningful … extend coherence to all possible situations of initial wealth. Since a coherent risk measure is the negative of a coherent … lower prevision, all results presented in this paper can easily be reformulated in terms of risk measures. Finally, we …
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risk capital needed for a portfolio of random activities should be allocated to its components. The well known allocation … model with expected shortfall as corresponding risk value is a prominent member of this class. Our contribution values also …
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The paper rst shows that nancial market equilibria need not to exist if agents possesscumulative prospect theory preferences with piecewise-power value functions. This is due tothe boundary behavior of the cumulative prospect theory value function, which might causean innite short-selling...
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Assuming investors are loss averse, repeated risky investments are less attractive inmyopic evaluation. A theoretical foundation for this effect is given by the behavioralconcept of myopic loss aversion (MLA). The consequences of MLA have been confirmedin several between-subject experimental...
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Structured financial products have gained more and more popularity in recent years, but nevertheless has their success so far notthoroughly been analyzed. In this article we develop a theoreticalframework for the design of optimal structured products and analyzethe maximal utility gain for an...
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It is well known that the class of strong (Generalized) AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (or GARCH) processes is not closed under contemporaneous aggregation. This paper provides the dynamics followed by the aggregate process when the individual persistence parameters are drawn from...
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