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Given a commercial banking firm facing credit risk we develop a dynamic hedging model where the bank management can use credit derivatives. In a continuous-time framework optimal hedging strategies, deposit and loan decisions and consumption are studied. It is shown that the optimal hedge ratio...
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This study introduces a non linear model for commodity futures prices which accounts for pressures due to hedging and speculative activities. The linkage with the corresponding spot market is considered assuming that a long term equilibrium relationship holds between futures and spot pricing....
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-parametric tests for jumps at the daily frequency to identify jumps at higher sampling frequencies. The suggested strategy allow for … identi�cation of the number of jumps and jump times during a day, as well as, the size and direction (negative or positive …) of the jumps. The method is of importance in order to facilitate detailed empirical studies concerning, for example …
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The purpose of this note is three folds. First, we review Levy processes and analyse jumps. Second, we correct mistakes …
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As observed at least in last two decades, financial engineering has not only changed the way of doing business in finance world, but also has changed daily life of average citizens in the leading economies. Structured products named as weapons of mass destruction in some post-crisis comments....
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Global financial markets are volatile right now and will remain so for the next 2-years. Equity markets are shaky. Investors risk appetite is suddenly moving to commodities. Bond market is precarious as Sovereign debt risk goes high. Global economy is slowly moving into recession which will be...
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This paper is a successor of [AK08]. Both papers describe the same suite of MATLAB R° routines devised to provide an approximately optimal solution to an infinite horizon stochastic optimal control problem. The difference is that this paper explains how to allow for state and control...
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This review questions Chuodhury's use of topological spaces for criticising the risk-return issues in mainstream financial literature. It highlights the failure of the work in producing an understandable Islamic alternate framework for the purpose.
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This paper examines relationships between theory of financial risk and size. Based on the work of Makridakis / Taleb [2009] and Taleb / Tapiero [2009], presents the problems of excessive risk and imbalances caused by the size of firms. Markets mixed on firm growth traps externalities can...
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Asset market liquidity risk is a significant and perplexing subject and though the term market liquidity risk is used quite chronically in academic literature it lacks an unambiguous definition, let alone understanding of the proposed risk measures. To this end, this paper presents a review of...
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