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Stange, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2009

Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment...

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Investitionen in Collateralized Debt Obligations

Heidorn, Thomas; König, Lars - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2003

The paper deals with the evaluation of Collateralized Debt Obligations forinvestment purposes. CDOs are classified in the asset backed environment. Itsspecific risks (market, timing, recovery, agency) are discussed. To understand theportfolio aspect, the concept of the diversity score is...

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Modeling Default Dependence with Threshold Models

Overbeck, Ludger; Schmidt, Wolfgang - Frankfurt School of Finance & Management - 2003

We investigate the problem of modeling defaults of dependent credits.In the framework of the class of structural default models we studythreshold models where for each credit the underling ability-to-payprocess is a transformation of a Wiener processes. We propose a modelfor dependent defaults...

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General Equilibrium and Risk Neutral Framework forOption Pricing with Mixture of Distributions

Vitiello, Luiz; Poon, Ser-Huang - Manchester Business School - 2006

This paper develops a closed form risk-neutral valuation model for pricing Europeanstyle options when the underlying …

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A general equilibrium and preference free model for pricing options under transformed gamma distribution

Vitiello, Luiz; Poon, Ser-Huang - Manchester Business School - 2006

distributed underlying asset. Closed formand preference free European option pricing formulae are derived for a variety of …(transformed) gamma distributions, and Heston’s (1993) model is obtained as aspecial case. The option pricing framework developed here … significantly extendsthe Gaussian class distributions embedded in current option pricing theories... …

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The response of industry stock returns to market, exchange rate and interest rate risks

Hyde, Stuart - Manchester Business School - 2007

This study investigates the sensitivity of stock returns at the industry level to market, exchange rateand interest rate shocks in the four major European economies: France, Germany, Italy and the UK.In addition to exposure to the market, significant levels of exposure to both exchange rate...

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Asset Allocation under Multivariate Regime Switching

Guidolin, Massimo; Timmermann, Allan - Manchester Business School - 2006

This paper studies asset allocation decisions in the presence of regime switching in asset returns. Wefind evidence that four separate regimes - characterized as crash, slow growth, bull and recovery states- are required to capture the joint distribution of stock and bond returns. Optimal asset...

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Measuring Market Liquidity Risk - Which Model Works Best?

Ernst, Cornelia; Stange, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2009

Market liquidity risk, the difficulty or cost of trading assets in crises, has been recognized as an important factor in risk management. Literature has already proposed several models to include liquidity risk in the standard Value-at-Risk framework. While theoretical comparisons between those...

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Estimating the Fama and French Factors in the UK - An Empirical Review

Michou, Maria; Mouselli, Sulaiman; Stark, Andrew - Manchester Business School - 2007

The Fama and French (1993) three factor model has been used in controlling for risk in theestimation of abnormal returns stemming from various events (e.g., IPOs, takeovers, etc.),portfolio strategies (e.g., those exploiting accounting numbers such as post-earningsannouncement drift or total...

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Accounting for Non-Normality in Liquidity Risk

Ernst, Cornelia; Stange, Sebastian; Kaserer, Christoph - Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies <München> - 2009

It has been frequently discussed, that returns are not normally distributed. Liquidity costs, measuring market liquidity, are similarly non-normally distributed displaying fat tails and skewness. Liquidity risk models either ignore this fact or use the historical distribution to empirically...

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