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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242128
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864931
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839779
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Application of stochastic optimal control to financial market debt crises
Stein, Jerome L. - 2009
This interdisciplinary paper explains how mathematical techniques of stochastic optimal control can be applied to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276757
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"Ito's Lemma" and the Bellman equation for poisson processes : an applied view
Sennewald, Ken; Wälde, Klaus - 2006
Using the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, we derive both a Keynes-Ramsey rule and a closed form solution for an optimal consumption-investment problem with labor income. The utility function is unbounded and uncertainty stems from a Poisson process. Our results can be derived because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261427
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Optimal debt and equilibrium exchange rates in a stochastic environment : an overview
Stein, Jerome L. - 2004
The focus is upon equilibrium real exchange rates, optimal external debt and their interaction, in a world where both the return on investment and the real rate of interest are stochastic variables. These theoretically based measures are applied empirically to answer the following questions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261108
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470324
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The Dominant Currency Financing Channel of External Adjustment
Casas, Camila; Meleshchuk, Sergii; Timmer, Yannick - 2023
to higher delinquencies and interest rates, while exports are unaffected. Natural and financial hedging successfully mute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377488
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Exchange Rate Parities and Taylor Rule Deviations
Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2021
This paper investigates the PPP and UIP conditions by taking into account possible nonlinearities as well as the role of Taylor rule deviations under alternative monetary policy frameworks. The analysis is conducted using monthly data from January 1993 to December 2020 for five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236279
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A critique of the literature on the US financial debt crisis
Stein, Jerome L. - 2010
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266065