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We study three cases in which specialized arbitrageurs lost significant amounts of capital and, as a result, became liquidity demanders rather than providers. The effects on security markets were large and persistent: Prices dropped relative to fundamentals and the rebound took months. While...
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We model the demand-pressure effect on prices when options cannot be perfectly hedged. The model shows that demand pressure in one option contract increases its price by an amount proportional to the variance of the unhedgeable part of the option. Similarly, the demand pressure increases the...
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We study IPOs by focusing on the degree of portfolio diversification of the shareholders taking the company public. We argue that a less diversified shareholder has more to gain from taking the company public and would be more willing to accept a lower price for the sale of its shares, i.e....
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Can we design statistical models to predict corporate earnings which either perform as well as, or even better than analysts? If we can, then we might consider automating the process, and notably apply it to small and international firms which typically have either sparse or no analyst coverage....
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Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less...
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-performance relationship by manipulating her risk exposure. In a dynamic portfolio choice framework, we show that as the year-end approaches … risky asset despite its positive risk premium. Under multiple sources of risk, with both systematic and idiosyncratic risks … present, we show that optimal managerial risk shifting may not necessarily involve taking on any idiosyncratic risk. Costs of …
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-performance relationship by manipulating her risk exposure. In a dynamic portfolio choice framework, we show that the ensuing convexities in … the manager's objective give rise to a finite risk-shifting range over which she gambles to finish ahead of her benchmark …. Such gambling entails either an increase or a decrease in the volatility of the manager's portfolio, depending on her risk …
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hedger, guided by the traditional minimum-variance criterion, aims at reducing the risk of a non-tradable asset or a … generalized "Greeks," familiar in risk management applications, as well as retaining the intuitive features of their static …
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between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler maxmin with multiple priors framework to lenders …
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We analyse bidding behaviour in auctions when risk-averse buyers bid for a good whose value is risky. We show that when … risk in the valuations increases, DARA bidders will reduce their bids by more than the appropriate increase in the risk … marginal utility of income increases with risk, so buyers are reluctant to bid so highly. We also show that precautionary …
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