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The performance of a given portfolio policy can in principle be evaluated by comparing its expected utility with that of the optimal policy. Unfortunately, the optimal policy is usually not computable in which case a direct comparison is impossible. In this paper we solve this problem by using...
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In a standard incomplete markets model with a continuum of households that have constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) preferences, the absence of insurance markets for idiosyncratic labor income risk has no effect on the premium for aggregate risk if the distribution of idiosyncratic risk is...
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Entrepreneurs often face undiversifiable idiosyncratic risks from their business investments. We extend the standard real options approach to an incomplete markets environment and analyze the joint decisions of business investments, consumption/savings, and portfolio selection. For a lump-sum...
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We model the equilibrium price and quantity of risk transfer between firms and financial intermediaries. Value-maximizing firms have downward sloping demands to cede risk, while intermediaries, who assume risk, provide less-than-fully-elastic supply. We show that equilibrium required returns...
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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 …
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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'...
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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...
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seldom sufficient and always expensive to hold. In this paper we argue that adding richer hedging instruments to the … point with a simple quantitative hedging model, where optimally used options and futures on the S&P100's implied volatility …
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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 …
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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 …
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