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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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Enhancing sustainable finance through green hydrogen equity investments : a multifaceted risk-return analysis

Kampe, Cristina - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 12, pp. 1-22

Amidst the global push for decarbonization, green hydrogen has gained recognition as a versatile and clean energy carrier, prompting the financial sector to introduce specialized investment instruments like Green Hydrogen Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). Despite the nascent nature of research on...

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Assessing the market risk on the government debt of Kazakhstan and Bulgaria in conditions of turbulence

Em, Olga; Georgiev, Georgi; Radukanov, Sergey; Petrova, … - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 5, pp. 1-18

The purpose of this publication is to quantify and compare the market risk on the external government debt of Kazakhstan and Bulgaria in the conditions of COVID-19, the emerging energy crisis, and the coup attempt in the first country. In particular, the authors invest the market risk of...

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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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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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Uncertainty in pricing and risk measurement of survivor contracts

So, Kenrick Raymond; Cruz, Stephanie Claire; Marcella, … - In: Risks : open access journal 13 (2025) 2, pp. 1-25

As life expectancy increases, pension plans face growing longevity risk. Standardized longevity-linked securities such as survivor contracts allow pension plans to transfer this risk to capital markets. However, more consensus is needed on the appropriate mortality model and premium principle to...

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Do banks diversify loan portfolios? : A tentative answer based on individual bank loan portfolios

Kamp, Andreas (contributor); Pfingsten, Andreas (contributor) - 2005

Theory of financial intermediation gives contradicting answers to the question whether banks should diversify or focus their loan portfolios. Our aim is to find out which of the two strategies is predominant in the German banking market. To this end we measure diversification for all German...

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Forecasting credit portfolio risk

Hamerle, Alfred (contributor); Liebig, Thilo (contributor); … - 2004

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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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