Showing 1 - 10 of 7,477
This paper examines the co-movement among stock market prices and exchange rates within a three-country Center-Periphery dynamic equilibrium model in which agents in the Center country face portfolio constraints. In our model, international transmission occurs through the terms of trade, through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467239
preference parameters. This paper also shows that stochastic variation in volatility produces an optimal intertemporal hedging … market shows that empirically this correlation is negative and large, which implies a negative hedging demand for stocks … hedging demands by long-term, risk averse investors. A comparative statics exercise shows that the size of hedging demands is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471407
Why did the real interest rate decline and the equity premium increase over the last 30 years? This paper assesses the role of uncertainty and credit market frictions. We quantify a model with heterogeneous households using data on asset prices and macro aggregates, as well as on households'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512052
We introduce and analyze a new market design for trading financial assets. The design allows traders to directly trade any user-defined linear combination of assets. Orders for such portfolios are expressed as downward-sloping piecewise-linear demand curves with quantities as flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250116
risks. Portfolios hedging macro uncertainty have historically earned zero or even significantly positive returns, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480268
hedging portfolio, which allows them to hedge the dynamic risk. This implies that trading volume of individual assets exhibit … a two-factor structure, and their factor loadings depend on their weights in the hedging portfolio. This allows us to … empirically identify the hedging portfolio using volume data. We then test the two properties of the hedging portfolio: its return …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470153
In the finance literature, a common practice is to create factor-portfolios by sorting on characteristics (such as book-to-market, profitability or investment) associated with average returns. The goal of this exercise is to create a parsimonious set of factor-portfolios that explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453549
hedging approach can eliminate nearly 90 percent of the tracking error of more conventional inflation hedging strategies. We … also find that long-short positions in equities play a dominant role in the effective hedging of inflation risk over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460524
This paper develops a method for option hedging which is consistent with time-varying preferences and probabilities … the spread between implied and objective volatilities. Hedging results reveal that typical hedging techniques for out …-of-the-money S&P500 index options, such as Black-Scholes or historical minimum variance hedging, are inferior to the EPK hedging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472589
In this article, we examine the effect of the imperfect mobility of goods on international risk sharing and, through that, on the investment in risky projects, welfare and growth. We find that the welfare gain of financial market openness is not monotonic with respect to investors' risk aversion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471806