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The price of the smile and variance risk premia

Gruber, Peter H.; Tebaldi, Claudio; Trojani, Fabio - 2015 - This version: September 8, 2015

traded in SPX option markets. The price of the smile reflects two persistent volatility and skewness risks, which imply a …

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Contagion of Fear : Is the Impact of COVID-19 on Sovereign Risk Really Indiscriminate?

Cevik, Serhan; Ozturkkal, Belma - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of infectious diseases on the evolution of sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads for a panel of 77 advanced and developing countries. Using annual data over the 2004-2020 period, we find that infectious-disease outbreaks have no discernible effect on CDS...

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Time-changed Lévy LIBOR market model for the joint estimation and pricing of caps and swaptions

Leippold, Markus; Stromberg, Jacob - 2012 - This version: May 18, 2012

We propose a novel time-changed L évy LIBOR market model for the joint pricing of caps and swaptions. The time changes are split into three components. The first component allows us to match the volatility term structure, the second generates stochastic volatility, and the third one...

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Unconventional Monetary Policy and Asset Price Risk

Roache, Shaun K. - 2013

risk-neutral density functions estimated from options prices. Based on an event study including a key exchange rate, an …

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Crash risk in individual stocks

Pederzoli, Paola - 2018

increase in the price of put options in individual stocks. Part of this skewness risk premium is idiosyncratic. Frictions on …This paper implements a novel model-free methodology to measure skewness risk premia in individual stocks. The … methodology takes the form of a trading strategy, a skewness swap. The return on the strategy shows a significant positive …

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Central bank collateral frameworks

Nyborg, Kjell G. - 2015

This paper seeks to inform about a feature of monetary policy that is largely overlooked, yet occupies a central role in modern monetary and financial systems, namely central bank collateral frameworks. Their importance can be understood by the observation that the money at the core of these...

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Sovereign Spreads and Contagion Risks in Asia

Caceres, Carlos - 2011

This paper explores how much of the movements in the sovereign spreads of Asian economies over the course of the global financial crisis has reflected shifts in (i) global risk aversion; (ii) country-specific risks, directly from worsening fundamentals, and indirectly from spillovers originating...

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Accounting for Macrofinancial Fluctuations and Turbulence

Vitek, Francis - 2018

This paper investigates the sources of macrofinancial fluctuations and turbulence within the framework of an approximate linear dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the world economy, augmented with structural shocks exhibiting potentially asymmetric generalized autoregressive...

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Bank Profitability and Financial Stability

Xu, TengTeng - 2019

We analyze how bank profitability impacts financial stability from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. We first develop a theoretical model of the relationship between bank profitability and financial stability by exploring the role of non-interest income and retail-oriented business...

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Ms. Muffet, the Spider(Gram) and the Web of Macro-Financial Linkages

Cervantes, Ricardo Javier - 2014

The global financial crisis has underscored the importance of understanding macro-financial developments and spillovers in an increasingly interconnected and intricate system. At the IMF, staff is focusing on the linkages between the real economy and the financial sector, as well as the...

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