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A comparative analysis of the nature of stock return volatility in BRICS and G7 markets
Muguto, Lorraine; Muzindutsi, Paul-Francois - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-27
:01–2020:08 were employed. The study found evidence of volatility persistence, asymmetry, mean reversion and weak evidence of a risk …
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Periodically collapsing bubbles in stock prices cointegrated with broad dividends and macroeconomic factors
Fu, Man; Bidarkota, Prasad V. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 4 (2012) 1, pp. 97-132
output gap shows evidence of cointegration in the DJIA and S&P 500 index data. Nonetheless, a sup augmented Dickey …
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Capital markets integration and cointegration : testing for the correct specification of stock market indices
Agoraki, Maria-Eleni K.; Georgoutsos, Demetris A.; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 4/186, pp. 1-20
capital integration with cointegration techniques. This approach minimizes the risk of accepting the null of no cointegration … provide partial support in favor of cointegration, and therefore for capital markets integration, among stock market indices … when proper attention is given to issues like the identification and temporal stability of the cointegration vectors as …
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Revisiting structural modeling of credit risk : evidence from the credit default swap (CDS) market
Huang, Zhijian; Luo, Yuchen - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 9 (2016) 2, pp. 1-20
The ground-breaking Black-Scholes-Merton model has brought about a generation of derivative pricing models that have been successfully applied in the financial industry. It has been a long standing puzzle that the structural models of credit risk, as an application of the same modeling paradigm,...
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Pricing a collateralized derivative trade with a funding value adjustment
Hunzinger, Chadd B.; Labuschagne, Coenraad C. A. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 8 (2015) 1, pp. 17-42
The 2008 credit crisis changed the manner in which derivative trades are conducted. One of these changes is the posting of collateral in a trade to mitigate the counterparty credit risk. Another is the realization that banks are not risk-free and, as a result, cannot borrow at the risk-free rate...
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Risk management of interest rate derivative portfolios : a stochastic control approach
Kiriakopoulos, Konstantinos; Koulis, Alexandros - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 7 (2014) 4, pp. 130-149
In this paper we formulate the Risk Management Control problem in the interest rate area as a constrained stochastic portfolio optimization problem. The utility that we use can be any continuous function and based on the viscosity theory, the unique solution of the problem is guaranteed. The...
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International diversification versus domestic diversification : mean-variance portfolio optimization and stochastic dominance approaches
Abid, Fathi; Leung, Pui-lam; Mroua, Mourad; Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 7 (2014) 2, pp. 45-66
This paper applies the mean-variance portfolio optimization (PO) approach and the stochastic dominance (SD) test to examine preferences for international diversification versus domestic diversification from American investors’ viewpoints. Our PO results imply that the domestic diversification...
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Asymmetric realized volatility risk
Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Scharth, Marcel - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 7 (2014) 2, pp. 80-109
In this paper, we document that realized variation measures constructed from high-frequency returns reveal a large degree of volatility risk in stock and index returns, where we characterize volatility risk by the extent to which forecasting errors in realized volatility are substantive. Even...
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On survivor stocks in the S&P 500 stock index
Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-24
This paper investigates the performance and characteristics of survivor stocks in the S&P 500 index. Using both in-sample and out-of-sample comparisons, survivor stocks outperformed this market index by a considerable margin. Relative to other S&P 500 index companies, survivor stocks tend to be...
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Central counterparties and liquidity provision in cash markets
Richter, Thomas - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 12, pp. 1-26
This paper investigates increased liquidity provision by market makers resulting from their ability to reduce balance sheet encumbrance through the use of central counterparties (CCPs). The introduction of the Basel III leverage rule constitutes a shock to market makers’ balance sheets and...
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