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Recent empirical studies suggest a downward sloping term structure of Sharpe ratios. We present a theoretical framework in continuous time that can cope with such a non-flat forward curve of risk prices. The approach departs from an arbitrage-free and incomplete market setting when different...
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Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In this paper we study an extensive CDX data set for evidence whether correlated defaults are also present in the underlying CDS market. We develop a cash flow based top-down...
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Mutual funds' exposure to corporate bonds has brought concerns about risks arising from liquidity transformation back … to the fore. With a focus on fund asset liquidity and investors, this paper explores the flow-performance relationship … and the liquidity management of funds in the presence of net redemptions. We highlight the response of fund liquidity …
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an estimation framework so that parameter estimates can be made directly from public data and are consistent with the …
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During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...
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Institutional funds have concentrated ownership by a few institutional investors, infrequent outflows and essentially no leverage. Yet using unique granular data on the bond holdings of institutional funds, we show that their trading behavior is strongly procyclical: they actively move into...
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funds’ vulnerability to systemic asset liquidations, highlighting the importance of funds’ liquidity transformation …. Therefore, regulators should monitor structural vulnerabilities in the fund sector arising through liquidity transformation. …
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