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Risk spillover among hedge funds: The role of redemptions and fund failures
Klaus, Benjamin; Rzepkowski, Bronka - 2009
This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605158
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Finance and diversification
Manganelli, Simone; Popov, Alexander - 2010
We study how financial market efficiency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors … and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct a benchmark measure of diversification as the set of allocations of … patterns disappear when we employ "naive" measures of diversification based on the equal spreading of output across sectors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605305
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Finance and Diversification
Manganelli, Simone - 2010
We study how financial market efficiency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors … and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct a benchmark measure of diversification as the set of allocations of … patterns disappear when we employ "naive" measures of diversification based on the equal spreading of output across sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136834
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Risk Spillover among Hedge Funds : The Role of Redemptions and Fund Failures
Klaus, Benjamin - 2009
This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154957
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The Effect of Possible EU Diversification Requirements on the Risk of Banks’ Sovereign Bond Portfolios
Craig, Ben R. - 2020
Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of … European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the … analysis. We then analyse the risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the largest European banks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838336
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Technological Diversification
Koren, Miklós; Tenreyro, Silvana - 2021
technological diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties, which are subject to imperfectly correlated shocks …. In our model, the expansion in the number of varieties provides diversification benefits against variety-specific shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318779
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Portuguese Banks in the Euro Area Market for Daily Funds
Alcoforado Farinha, Maria Luísa; Gaspar, Vitor - 2009
In this paper, we use the Furfine (1999) statistical procedure to identify money market operations from Payments Systems data. Given the availability of an alternative data set, recording money market operations we could confirm the accuracy of the method. We examine evidence on integration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212409
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Optimal Monetary Policy and the Transmission of Oil-Supply Shocks to the Euro Area under Rational Expectations
Adjemian, Stephane; Darracq Pariès, Matthieu - 2009
This paper presents first the estimation of a two-country DSGE model for the euro area and the rest-of-the-world including relevant oil-price channels. We then investigate the optimal resolution of the policy tradeoffs emanating from oil-price disturbances. Our simulations show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213432
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On the Empirical Evidence of the Intertemporal Current Account Model for the Euro Area Countries
Ca'Zorzi, Michele; Rubaszek, Michał - 2022
In this paper we present a novel approach to the empirical validation of the intertemporal approach to the current account. We develop a calibrated model highlighting the role of consumption smoothing and capital accumulation in the economic convergence process. After solving the model, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218841
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A New Optimum Currency Area Index for the Euro Area
Kunovac, Davor; Rodriguez Palenzuela, Diego; Sun, Yiqiao - 2022
We propose a new and time-varying optimum currency area (OCA) index for the euro area in assessing the evolution of the OCA properties of the monetary union from an international business cycle perspective. It is derived from the relative importance of symmetric vs. asymmetric shocks that result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076631