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Tenure Choice, Portfolio Structure and Long-Term Care - Optimal Risk Management in Retirement
Fehr, Hans - 2019
We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the Stochastic Discount Factor and Estimation of Risk Premia from Portfolios
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2021
The arbitrage pricing theory (APT) attributes differences in expected returns to exposure to systematic risk factors …
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Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset
Bauer, Adam Michael; Proistosescu, Christian; Wagner, Gernot - 2023
We develop a financial-economic model for carbon pricing with an explicit representation of decision making under risk and uncertainty that is consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. We find that this approach provides economic support for the...
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Hedging Climate Change News
Engle, Robert F. - 2019
exposures. We show that this approach yields parsimonious and industry-balanced portfolios that perform well in hedging …
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Managerial hedging and portfolio monitoring
Bisin, Alberto; Gottardi, Piero; Rampini, Adriano A. - 2004
using financial markets and shareholders cannot perfectly monitor the manager's portfolio in order to keep him from hedging … monitoring is costly governance is imperfect. If managerial hedging is detected, shareholders can seize the payoffs of the …) conditional on the firm's performance, the manager's compensation is lower when his portfolio is monitored, even if no hedging is …
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Can Time-Varying Currency Risk Hedging Explain Exchange Rates?
Bräuer, Leonie; Hau, Harald - 2022
bond positions, which creates a net hedging demand for dollar assets that depreciates USD rates in both the forward and … spot markets. We document the time-varying nature of this net hedging demand and show how it relates to eco … FX hedging pressure can account for approximately 30% of all monthly variation in the seven most important dollar …
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Carbon Default Swap - Disentangling the Exposure to Carbon Risk Through CDS
Blasberg, Alexander; Kiesel, Ruediger; Taschini, Luca - 2022
Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that carbon risk affects firms’ credit spread. The effect is larger for European than North American firms and varies substantially across industries, suggesting the market recognises...
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Currency Portfolio of External Debt, Exchange Rate Cyclicality, and Consumption Volatility
Fujii, Eiji - 2020
Even though external debt can play a buffer role against adverse shocks to assist consumption smoothing, it may also exert a volatility amplifying effect, depending on the currency of denomination and the cyclicality of the borrower's exchange rate. We empirically investigate the nexus between...
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Robo-Advising
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2020
In this chapter, we first discuss the limitations of traditional financial advice, which led to the emergence of robo-advising. We then describe the main features of robo-advising and propose a taxonomy of robo-advisors based on four defining dimensions---personalization, discretion,...
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Retaining Alpha : The Effect of Trade Size and Rebalancing Frequency on FX Strategy Returns
Melvin, Michael - 2020
The literature on currency investing that incorporates transaction costs uses costs relevant for small trade sizes. Using the entire order book of the major electronic brokerages for FX, we compute sweep-to-fill costs for trades of different sizes and illustrate the reduction in post-cost...
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