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This thesis contributes to the analysis and measure of systemic risk through four chapters. In the first chapter, we … discuss the notion of systemic risk and detail the methodological issues of modeling. The second chapter proposes a structural … encompassing the effect of interconnections between institutions. We compute a risk premium specific to interconnections. In the …
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resumed its close correlation with the financial sector since 2001. In terms of risk exposure, estimations of the Capital … improves the investor's risk-return performance. While the inclusion of microfinance equity has indeed been a major source of …
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This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become...
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from their conventional benchmarks and that the Islamic screening leads to significant differences in risk and excess …
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correlation (DCC) GARCH methodology, we show that the correlations between commodity and stock markets evolve through time and are …
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We study the inflation hedging ability of individual stocks. While the poor inflation hedging ability of the aggregate stock market has long been documented, there is considerable heterogeneity in how individual stock returns covary with inflation. Stocks with good inflation-hedging abilities...
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This paper presents a study of intra-day patterns of stock market activity and introduces duration based activity measures for single stocks and multiple assets. The proposed measures involve weighted durations, i.e. times necessary to sell (buy) a predetermined volume or value of stocks. As...
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uncertainty. The model explicitly accounts for equipment availability and load duration curves in selecting optimal investment …
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