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Portfolio diversification effects of downside risk

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Risk diversification by European financial conglomerates

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Forecasting value-at-risk under temporal and portfolio aggregation

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We examine the impact of temporal and portfolio aggregation on the quality of Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasts over a horizon of ten trading days for a well-diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds and alternative investments. The VaR forecasts are constructed based on daily, weekly or biweekly...

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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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Down-side risk metrics as portfolio diversification strategies across the GFC

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down-side risk metrics, as a portfolio diversification strategy in a European market context. We apply these measures to a … investment hold out period, to analyse a naive 1/N diversification strategy, and to contrast its effectiveness with Markowitz … sophisticated optimisation strategies appear to dominate naive diversification. …

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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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Decomposing portfolio value-at-risk : a general analysis

Hallerbach, Winfried G. - 1999 - This rev.: May 10, 1999

An intensive and still growing body of research focuses on estimating a portfolio’s Value-at-Risk.Depending on both the degree of non-linearity of the instruments comprised in the portfolio and thewillingness to make restrictive assumptions on the underlying statistical distributions, a...

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