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Brumm, Johannes - 2014

In this paper we examine the quantitative effects of margin regulation on volatility in asset markets. We consider a … of collateral constraints leads to strong excess volatility. Thus, a regulation of margin requirements may have … stabilizing effects. However, in line with the empirical evidence on margin regulation in U.S. stock markets, we show that changes …

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The impact of the euro on financial markets

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Hördahl, Peter; Kadareja, Arjan; … - 2006

, we focus on the asset pricing implications of the euro. Specifically, we use a dynamic no arbitrage term structure model …

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Is the corporate bond market forward looking?

Hilscher, Jens - 2007

This paper presents empirical evidence that the corporate bond market is forward looking with respect to volatility. I use the Merton (1974) model to calculate a measure of implied volatility from corporate bond yield spreads. I find that corporate bond transaction prices contain substantial...

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The uncovered return parity condition

Cappiello, Lorenzo; De Santis, Roberto A. - 2007

This paper proposes an equilibrium relationship between expected exchange rate changes and differentials in expected returns on risky assets. We show that when expected returns on a risky asset in a certain economy are higher than the returns that are expected from investing in a risky asset in...

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Hierarchical Markov normal mixture models with applications to financial asset returns

Geweke, John; Amisano, Gianni - 2007

With the aim of constructing predictive distributions for daily returns, we introduce a new Markov normal mixture model in which the components are themselves normal mixtures. We derive the restrictions on the autocovariances and linear representation of integer powers of the time series in...

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Assessing the compensation for volatility risk implicit in interest rate derivatives

Fornari, Fabio - 2008

Volatilities implied from interest rate swaptions are used to assess the size and the sign of the compensation for volatility risk, for dollar, euro and pound rates at a daily frequency, between October 1998 and August 2006. The measurement of the volatility risk premium rests on a simple model...

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Stock market volatility and learning

Adam, Klaus; Marcet, Albert; Nicolini, Juan Pablo - 2008

Introducing bounded rationality into a standard consumption based asset pricing model with a representative agent and …

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How arbitrage-free is the Nelson-Siegel Model?

Coroneo, Laura; Nyholm, Ken; Vidova-Koleva, Rositsa - 2008

We test whether the Nelson and Siegel (1987) yield curve model is arbitrage-free in a statistical sense. Theoretically, the Nelson-Siegel model does not ensure the absence of arbitrage opportunities, as shown by Bjork and Christensen (1999). Still, central banks and public wealth managers rely...

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International stock return comovements

Bekaert, Geert; Hodrick, Robert J.; Zhang, Xiaoyan - 2008

We examine international stock return comovements using country-industry and country-style portfolios as the base portfolios. We first establish that parsimonious risk-based factor models capture the covariance structure of the data better than the popular Heston- ouwenhorst (1994) model. We...

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The term structure of equity premia in an affine arbitrage-free model of bond and stock market dynamics

Lemke, Wolfgang; Werner, Thomas - 2009

We estimate time-varying expected excess returns on the US stock market from 1983 to 2008 using a model that jointly captures the arbitrage-free dynamics of stock returns and nominal bond yields. The model nests the class of affine term structure (of interest rates) models. Stock returns and...

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