Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 554
Cover Image
Evaluation of long-dated investments under uncertain growth trend, volatility and catastrophes
Gollier, Christian - 2012
probability of macroeconomic catastrophes à la Barro (2006), and to the case of an uncertain trend or volatility of growth à la …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009689360
Cover Image
Liquidity risk, credit risk and the overnight interest rate spread : a stochastic volatility modelling approach
Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2010
In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy … 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited signs of volatility, owing to the breakdown in interbank market … activity. The determinants of this volatility are assessed using Stochastic Volatility models to gauge the role played by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983199
Cover Image
Dissecting characteristics nonparametrically
Freyberger, Joachim; Neuhierl, Andreas; Weber, Michael - 2017 - This version: February 2017
We propose a nonparametric method to test which characteristics provide independent information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619632
Cover Image
The economics of bitcoins : market characteristics and price jumps
Gronwald, Marc - 2014
This paper deals with the economics of Bitcoins in two ways. First, it broadens the discussion on how to capture Bitcoins using economic terms. Center stage in this analysis take the discussion of some unique characteristics of this market as well as the comparison of Bitcoins and gold. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464707
Cover Image
Dissecting characteristics nonparametrically
Freyberger, Joachim; Neuhierl, Andreas; Weber, Michael - 2018 - This version: July 2018
We propose a nonparametric method to study which characteristics provide incremental information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888693
Cover Image
Measuring market expectations
Baumeister, Christiane - 2021
Asset prices are a valuable source of information about financial market participants.expectations about key macroeconomic variables. However, the presence of time-varying risk premia requires an adjustment of market prices to obtain the market’s rational assessment of future price and policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622575
Cover Image
Sovereign bonds since Waterloo
Meyer, Josefin; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2019
This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973856
Cover Image
Total, asymmetric and frequency connectedness between oil and forex markets
Baruník, Jozef; Kočenda, Evžen - 2019
that divergence in monetary policy regimes affects forex volatility spillovers but that adding oil to a forex portfolio … shocks dominate forex volatility connectedness, positive shocks prevail when oil and forex markets are assessed jointly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035050
Cover Image
Asymmetric connectedness on the US stock market : bad and good volatility spillovers
Baruník, Jozef; Kočenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - 2015
This paper suggests how to quantify asymmetries in volatility spillovers that emerge due to bad and good volatility … stocks at the disaggregate level. Moreover, the spillovers of bad and good volatility are transmitted at different magnitudes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509638
Cover Image
The micro dynamics of macro announcements
Mittnik, Stefan; Robinzonov, Nikolay; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
response analysis. Second, we examine the announcements effects on market volatility in a more detailed fashion by … adequately analyze both conditional mean and volatility effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190208