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Dorn, Daniel - 2010

During the last decade, markets for covered warrants (bank-issued options) have flourished in Europe and Asia. In these … trades in call options on the German DAX index, this paper documents substantial price dispersion across securities that are … close substitutes. Moreover, investors generally fail to identify attractively priced options. The results suggest that the …

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Risk-neutral systemic risk indicators

Malz, Allan Martin - 2013

index options. It displays results from a prototype version, computed daily from January 2006 to January 2013. The …

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No good deals - no bad models

Boyarchenko, Nina; Cerrato, Mario; Crosby, John; … - 2012

Faced with the problem of pricing complex contingent claims, investors seek to make their valuations robust to model uncertainty. We construct a notion of a modeluncertainty-induced utility function and show that model uncertainty increases investors' effective risk aversion. Using this utility...

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The overnight drift

Boyarchenko, Nina; Larsen, Lars C.; Whelan, Paul - 2021 - Revised September 2021

We show that nearly 100 percent of the U.S. equity premium is earned over a window around the opening hours of European markets when U.S. cash markets are closed. We explore two potential complementary explanations. First, consistent with predictions from dealer inventory risk models, we find...

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Evaluating Market Risk from Leveraged Derivative Exposures

Jukonis, Audrius - 2022

Market participants use leveraged derivatives to gain access to equity market exposure through broker banks. Leverage and interconnectedness via overlapping portfolios of dealer banks can amplify adverse market movements, potentially causing sizeable losses. I propose a model, based on granular...

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Investors with Too Many Options?

Dorn, Daniel - 2010

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Detecting and interpreting financial stress in the euro area

Blix Grimaldi, Marianna - 2010

There is a need to find better models and indicators for large disruptive events, not least in order to be more prepared and mitigate their effects. In this paper we take a step in this direction and discuss the performance of a financial stress indicator with a specific focus on the euro area....

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CoVaR

Adrian, Tobias (contributor); … - 2008

We propose a measure for systemic risk: CoVaR, the value at risk (VaR) of financial institutions conditional on other institutions being in distress. We define an institution’s (marginal) contribution to systemic risk as the difference between CoVaR and the financial system’s VaR. From our...

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Risk and Return in International Corporate Bond Markets

De Santis, Roberto A. - 2020

Corporate bond returns in the major developed economies increase with risk, as measured by maturity and ratings. From a pricing perspective, we find little to no evidence against the World CAPM model, where the market consists out of equity, sovereign and corporate bonds. However, from a factor...

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The long and short of it : the post-crisis corporate CDS market

Boyarchenko, Nina; Costello, Anna M.; Shachar, Or - 2019

The 2007-09 financial crisis highlighted the vulnerability of financial institutions linked by a complex web of credit default swap (CDS) contracts, sparking a wave of regulatory changes to the structure of the market. In this paper, we provide broad evidence on the evolution of the CDS market...

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