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The downside risk of heavy tails induces low diversification

Hyung, Namwon; Vries, Casper G. de - 2010

diversification against the benefits in terms of the standard deviation of the returns. Suppose a safety first investor cares about …

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Aggregating credit and market risk : the impact of model specification

Lucas, André; Verhoef, Bastiaan - 2012

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Risk diversification by European financial conglomerates

Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - 2005

diversification within large banks and financial conglomerates. We discuss the limited value of the normal distribution based … of the risk distribution. This measure is estimated and indicates better diversification benefits for conglomerates …

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Risk diversification by European financial conglomerates

Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - 2005

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The downside risk of heavy tails induces low diversification

Hyung, Namwon; Vries, Casper G. de - 2010

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A real options perspective on R&D portfolio diversification

Bekkum, Sjoerd van; Pennings, Enrico; Smit, Han T. J. - 2008

portfolio risk, and changes diversification arguments when a portfolio is constructed. When R&D projects exhibit option …-like characteristics, correlation between projects plays a more complicated role than traditional portfolio diversification would suggest … hardly reduced by diversification. When projects are positively correlated, however, diversification is more effective than …

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Auctions under payoff uncertainty : the case with heterogeneous bidder-aversion to downside risk

Hu, Audrey Xianhua; Zou, Liang - 2008

This paper characterizes the optimal first-price auction (FPA) and second-price auction (SPA) for selling rights, contracts, or licenses that involve ensuing payoff uncertainty for the winning bidder. The distribution of the random payoff is common knowledge, except that bidders have private...

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Has the Basel II accord encouraged risk management during the 2008 - 09 financial crisis?

McAleer, Michael; Jimenez-Martin, Juan-Angel; Pérez … - 2009

The Basel II Accord requires that banks and other Authorized Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) communicate their daily risk forecasts to the appropriate monetary authorities at the beginning of each trading day, using one or more risk models to measure Value-at-Risk (VaR). The risk estimates of...

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Value at risk as a diagnostic tool for corporates : the airline industry

Hallerbach, Winfried G.; Menkveld, Albert J. - 1999

In recent years the Value at Risk (VaR) concept for measuringdownside risk has been widelystudied. VaR basically is a summary statistic that quantifies theexposure of an asset or portfolio tomarket risk, or the risk that a position declines in value withadverse market price changes. Threeparties...

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Inherent reward and risk (part I) : towards a universal paradigm for investment analysis

Zou, Liang - 2000

In this paper, a new paradigm is developed for analyzinginvestment strategies and pricing financial assets. This paradigmassumes that any investment strategy has its own "inherent reward" and "inherent risk" that can be judged with common sense. Ijustify axiomatically the existence and...

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