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The home bias in equities and distribution costs

Harms, Philipp; Hoffmann, Mathias; Ortseifer, Christina - 2010

We show that including distribution costs into a general equilibrium model of international portfolio choice contributes to explaining the “home bias” in international equity investment. Our model is able to replicate observed investment positions for a wide range of parameter values, even...

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Effect of variance swap in hedging volatility risk

Shen, Yang - In: Risks : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/70, pp. 1-34

This paper studies the effect of variance swap in hedging volatility risk under the mean-variance criterion. We … financial market is complete and contains three primitive assets: a bank account, a stock and a variance swap, where the … variance swap can be used to hedge against the volatility risk. In the second problem, only the bank account and the stock can …

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Pricing of pseudo-swaps based on pseudo-statistics

Franco, Sebastian; Sviščuk, Anatolij - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 8, pp. 1-30

stochastic volatility, and instead relies on data/statistics. A data/statistics-based approach to swap pricing is very different … to compare a stochastic model to the data/statistics-based approach to swap pricing that is developed within this paper. …

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Pricing of averaged variance, volatility, covariance and correlation swaps with semi-markov volatilities

Sviščuk, Anatolij; Franco, Sebastian - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 9, pp. 1-22

calculate averaged swap prices for financial markets with semi-Markov volatilities? This question has not been considered in the …

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Systematic risk of CDOs and CDO arbitrage

Hamerle, Alfred; Liebig, Thilo; Schropp, Hans-Jochen - 2009

"Arbitrage CDOs" have recorded an explosive growth during the years before the outbreak of the financial crisis. In the present paper we discuss potential sources of such arbitrage opportunities, in particular arbitrage gains due to mispricing. For this purpose we examine the risk profiles of...

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Granularity adjustment for Basel II

Gordy, Michael B. (contributor); … - 2007

The credit value-at-risk model underpinning the Basel II Internal Ratings-Based approach assumes that idiosyncratic risk has been diversified away fully in the portfolio, so that economic capital depends only on systematic risk contributions. We develop a simple methodology for approximating the...

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Modelling dynamic portfolio risk using risk drivers of elliptical processes

Schmidt, Rafael (contributor); … - 2007

The situation of a limited availability of historical data is frequently encountered in portfolio risk estimation, especially in credit risk estimation. This makes it, for example, difficult to find temporal structures with statistical significance in the data on the single asset level. By...

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Do specialization benefits outweigh concentration risks in credit portfolios of German banks?

Böve, Rolf; Düllmann, Klaus; Pfingsten, Andreas - 2010

Lending specialization on certain industry sectors can have opposing effects on monitoring (including screening) abilities and on the sectoral concentration risk of a credit portfolio. In this paper, we examine in the first part if monitoring abilities of German cooperative banks and savings...

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Endogenous credit derivatives and bank behavior

Pausch, Thilo (contributor) - 2007

Instruments for credit risk transfer arise endogenously from and interact with optimizing behavior of their users. This is particularly true with credit derivatives which are usually OTC contracts between banks as buyers and sellers of credit risk. Recent literature, however, does not account...

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Sector concentration in loan portfolios and economic capital

Düllmann, Klaus (contributor); … - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to measure the potential impact of business-sector concentration on economic capital for loan portfolios and to explore a tractable model for its measurement. The empirical part evaluates the increase in economic capital in a multi-factor asset value model for...

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