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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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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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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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Cross-border diversification in bank asset portfolios
Buch, Claudia M.; Driscoll, John C.; Ostergaard, Charlotte - 2005
located in France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. under different assumptions about currency hedging. We compare these … banks over-invest domestically to a considerable extent and that cross-border diversification entails considerable gain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604475
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Household's Portfolio Structure in Germany - Analysis of Financial Accounts Data 1959-2009
Ramb, Fred - 2011
Based on a Financial Almost Ideal Demand System (FAIDS), this paper investigates the wealth structure of German households. The long-run wealth elasticities and interest rate elasticities were calculated using a unique new quarterly financial accounts macro data set which covers the period from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124189
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Who Invests in Home Equity to Exempt Wealth from Bankruptcy?
Corradin, Stefano - 2011
Homestead exemptions to personal bankruptcy allow households to retain their home equity up to a limit determined at the state level. Households that may experience bankruptcy thus have an incentive to bias their portfolios towards home equity. Using US household data from the Survey of Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126001
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Optimal Portfolio Choice with Predictability in House Prices and Transaction Costs
Corradin, Stefano - 2012
We generalize the classic Grossman and Laroque (1990) (GL) model of optimal portfolio choice with housing and transaction costs by introducing predictability in house prices. As in the GL model, agents only move to more expensive (cheaper) houses when their wealth-to-housing ratios reach an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100578
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On the International Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2013
The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy measures. First, we find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1) were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and raising equity markets, especially in the US relative to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081463
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Home Bias in Bank Sovereign Bond Purchases and the Bank-Sovereign Nexus
Andreeva, Desislava - 2017
We study whether a pre-existing link between bank and sovereign credit risk biased euro area banks' sovereign debt portfolio choices during 2011Q4 and 2012Q1 - a period of exceptional increases in their domestic sovereign bond holdings. We find that banks whose creditworthiness is linked to that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963945