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This paper develops a closed form risk-neutral valuation model for pricing Europeanstyle options when the underlying …
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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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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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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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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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We systematically examine the comparative predictive performance of a number of alternativelinear and non-linear models for stock and bond returns in the G7 countries. Besides Markovswitching, threshold autoregressive (TAR), and smooth transition autoregressive (STAR) regimeswitching...
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thehypothesized pricing system. Increasing the systematic risk or reducing the total risk of the bondcollateral increases the profits …
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I examine determinants of stochastic relative risk aversion in conditional asset pricing models. I first develop time …
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The paper explores whether the co-movement of market returns and equity fundflows can be explained by a common response to macroeconomic news. I findthat variables that predict the real economy as well as the equity premium arerelated to mutual fund flows. Changes in dividend-price ratio explain...
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This paper investigates the returns and °ows of German money marketfunds before and during the liquidity crisis of 2007/2008. The main¯ndings of this paper are: in liquid times, money market funds en-hanced their returns by investing in less liquid papers. By doing sothey outperformed other...
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