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Risk measures for autocorrelated hedge fund returns
Di Cesare, Antonio; Stork, Philip; Vries, Casper G. de - 2011
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Accounting noise and the pricing of cocos
Derksen, Mike; Spreij, Peter; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2018
Contingent Convertible bonds (CoCos) are debt instruments that convert into equity or are written down in times of distress. Existing pricing models assume conversion triggers based on market prices and on the assumption that markets can always observe all relevant firm information. But all...
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Market liquidity and exposure of hedge funds
Siegmann, Adriaan Hendrik; Stefanova, Denitsa - 2011
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The information in systemic risk rankings
Nucera, Federico; Schwaab, Bernd; Koopman, Siem Jan; … - 2015
We propose to pool alternative systemic risk rankings for financial institutions using the method of principal components. The resulting overall ranking is less affected by estimation uncertainty and model risk. We apply our methodology to disentangle the common signal and the idiosyncratic...
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The political economy of financial systems
Haber, Stephen H.; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2008
This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size … citizens thus strongly affects their access to finance. Finally, we review the recent literature on the time variation of ….The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for financial development and the recent evidence suggests that unconstrained …
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Bank ownership and financial stability
Perotti, Enrico C.; Vorage, Marcel - 2010
We study a politician's choice for state or private control of banks. The choice trades of lobbying contributions against social welfare, weighted by political accountability.Politicians facing few constraints prefer state control to maximize their rents. As state banks are less efficient, at...
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The political economy of dominant investors
Perotti, Enrico C.; Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig von - 2005
We allow the preference of a political majority to determine boththe corporate governance structure and the division of profits betweenhuman and financial capital. In a democratic society where financialwealth is concentrated, a political majority may prefer to restraingovernance by dispersed...
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Lobbying on entry
Perotti, Enrico C.; Volpin, Paolo - 2004
We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequalityand political accountability undermine entry and financial development. In-cumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potentialentrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...
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Aggregate risk and efficiency of mutual funds
Kucinskas, Simas - 2015
I analyze welfare properties of mutual funds in the Diamond-Dybvig model with two sources of aggregate risk: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only...
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Risk diversification by European financial conglomerates
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - 2005
We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...
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