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which the risk management and hedging needs of investors may be effectively met through the derivative instruments. However …. And yet, more and more companies are using(or being forced to use) futures and derivatives to stay competitive in a fast …
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People by and large tend to postpone their present consumption for numerous reasons. This postponement of consumption leaves them with surplus money to invest for future consumption. Amongst the number of alternatives avenues present for such investments, gold too tends to be one of them. People...
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the hedge ratios of foreign-listed single stock futures (SSFs) and to … estimate constant optimal hedge ratios and the dynamic hedging ratios, respectively. Data of the SSFs listed on the London … International Financial Future and Options Exchange (LIFFE) are used in this research. We find that the data series have high …
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support annex traded between default-free counterparties is studied. Two pricing approaches -- by hedging and by expectation …
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We revisit the problem of pricing and hedging plain vanilla single-currency interest rate derivatives using multiple …
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This paper studies how options trading, by circumventing constraints on borrowing, permits optimistic investors to hold …. We show that aggregate demand for the stock is what prevails when options do not exist and no constraints hold …
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An anchoring adjusted currency option pricing formula is developed in which the risk of the underlying currency is used as a starting point which gets adjusted upwards to arrive at the currency call risk. Anchoring bias implies that such adjustments are insufficient. The new formula converges to...
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This research aims to construct a model for pricing counterparty credit risk (CCR) for synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) tranches by considering the relationship between the counterparty and the credit port- folio. A stochastic intensity model is adopted to describe the default...
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Once upon a time there was a classical financial world in which all the Libors were equal. Standard textbooks taught that simple relations held, such that, for example, a 6 months Libor Deposit was replicable with a 3 months Libor Deposits plus a 3x6 months Forward Rate Agreement (FRA), and that...
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The standard measures of distress risk ignore the fact that firm defaults are correlated and that some defaults are more likely to occur in bad times. We use risk premium computed from corporate credit spreads to measure a firm’s exposure to systematic variation in default risk. Unlike...
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