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This paper investigates how the introduction of an index security directly or indirectly impacts the underlying-index spot-futures pricing. Using intraday data for financial instruments related to the CAC 40 index, we do not find that the spot-futures price efficiency improvement observed after...
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This paper presents a simple framework for the use of traditional capital budgeting models and the valuation of several real options in the presence of shadow costs of incomplete information. Information costs can be viewed as sunk costs in the spirit of Merton’s (1987) model of capital market...
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volatility risk premium strategies. An analytical framework, which offers pragmatic solutions for long-term investors who seek … exposure to volatility, is used to calibrate and assess the risk-return profiles of portfolios. The benefit of volatility … exposure for a conventional portfolio is shown through a mean-modified value at risk portfolio optimization. A pure volatility …
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We derive the implications from the absence of arbitrage in dynamic securities markets with bid-ask spreads. The absence of arbitrage is equivalent to the existence of at least an equivalent probability measure that transforms some process between the bid and the ask price processes of traded...
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We consider the discretized version of a (continuous-time) two-factor model introduced by Benth and coauthors for the electricity markets. For this model, the underlying is the exponent of a sum of independent random variables. We provide and test an algori thm, which is based on the celebrated...
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`ex-ante' basis, with an empirical study of the link between expected return, risk, and liquidity in a sample consisting … for portfolios from both a univariate and a multivariate perspective. The paper shows how risk and liquidity premiums can … liquidity premiums together with risk premiums are useful in active asset management. …
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processing and order imbalance costs. This most probably results from additional risk sharing capacities provided by increased …
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This paper presents a capital asset pricing model in the presence of asymmetric information and transaction costs. The model is a generalized version of Merton's (1987) model and Black's (1974) model. Empirical tests show a negative relation between the expected rate of return and the shadow...
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This article examines how the inception of an ETF market impacts several dimensions of the liquidity of the ETF-underlying-index stocks. In contrast with previous research, our evidence is based on an ETF market where liquidity providers (LPs) act as market makers. We find that: (1) the market...
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from gas to nuclear. Next, we use the portfolio theory to manage risk of the electricity generation portfolio and to … optimal mix than the mix fixed for the Tunisian mix for the horizon 2010–2020, with lower cost for the same risk degree. In …
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