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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 …
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on extreme upper tail quantiles, leaning against the risk of extremely adverse market outcomes while active …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422114
Savings accounts are owned by most households, but little is known about the performance of households' investments. We create a unique dataset by matching information on individual savings accounts from the DNB Household Survey with market data on account-specific interest rates and...
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We measure the commonality in hedge fund returns, identify its main driving factor and analyze its implications for financial stability. We find that hedge funds' commonality increased significantly from 2003 until 2006. We attribute this rise mainly to the increase in hedge funds' exposure to...
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risk premium. As for the US, only a few predictors play an important role. In the case of the UK, future stock returns are …
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In this paper we study the impact of shocks to global risk and global risk aversion (such as Lehman) as well as shocks … securities which are consistently safe haven assets, namely experiencing portfolio inflows when risk is on the rise or perceived … in certain risk measures. We also find that the role of US-based crises and risk shocks is special, with the US not …
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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 find that risk spillover is significantly related to the failure … within the same investment style are adversely affected through both channels of risk spillover. In addition, we find that …
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We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …
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I study rollover risk in the wholesale funding market when intermediaries can hold liquidity ex-ante and are subject to …
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