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We study the properties of the carry trade, a currency speculation strategy in which an investor borrows low-interest-rate currencies and lends high-interest-rate currencies. This strategy generates payoffs which are on average large and uncorrelated with traditional risk factors. We argue that...
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Given a European derivative security with an arbitrary payoff function and a corresponding set of" underlying securities on which the derivative security is based, we solve the dynamic replication problem: find a" self-financing dynamic portfolio strategy involving only the underlying securities...
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the practical relevance of our network pricing approach, we apply it to the pricing and delta-hedging of S&P 500 futures …
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comparable to that of returns in stock markets. Evidence is shown that there may be only minimal possibility of cross hedging … examined. Such markets, by allowing hedging of these aggregate income risks, might make for dramatically more effective …
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volatility associated with current dynamic hedging strategies. There will thus be less information transmitted to those people … trades implied by the dynamic hedging strategies, In effect, the stocks' future price volatility can rise because of a … current lack of information about the extent to which dynamic hedging strategies are in place …
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The Global Financial Crisis initiated a period of market turbulence and increased counterparty risk for financial institutions. Even though the Dodd-Frank Act is likely to exempt interbank foreign exchange trading from a central counterparty mandate, market participants have the option to trade...
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We study the implications of hedging for firm financing and investment. We do so using an extensive, hand …-collected dataset on corporate hedging activities. Hedging can lower the odds of negative firm realizations, reducing the expected costs … channels (cost of borrowing and investment restrictions) through which hedging affects corporate outcomes. The analysis we …
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We develop a tractable and flexible stochastic volatility multi-factor model of the term structure of interest rates. It features correlations between innovations to forward rates and volatilities, quasi-analytical prices of zero-coupon bond options and dynamics of the forward rate curve, under...
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