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Special issue on forecasting financial markets
Dunis, Christian (contributor); Kanioura, Athina (contributor) - 2006
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Special issue: forecasting financial markets
Dunis, Christian (contributor) - In: The European journal of finance 13 (2007) 3/4, pp. 301-395
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Special issue on Forecasting financial markets
Dunis, Christian (contributor); Kanioura, Athina (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003081451
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Embedded Leverage
Frazzini, Andrea - 2012
Many financial instruments are designed with embedded leverage such as options and leveraged exchange traded funds (ETFs). Embedded leverage alleviates investors' leverage constraints and, therefore, we hypothesize that embedded leverage lowers required returns. Consistent with this hypothesis,...
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Gold Returns
Barro, Robert J. - 2013
From 1836 to 2011, the average real rate of price change for gold in the United States is 1.1% per year and the standard deviation is 13.1%, implying a one-standard-deviation confidence band for the mean of (0.1%, 2.1%). The covariances of gold's real rate of price change with consumption and...
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Answering the Critics : Yes, Arch Models Do Provide Good Volatility Forecasts
Andersen, Torben G. - 2008
Volatility permeates modern financial theories and decision making processes. As such, accurate measures and good forecasts of future volatility are critical for the implementation and evaluation of asset pricing theories. In response to this, a voluminous literature has emerged for modeling the...
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Consumption, Stock Returns, and the Gains from International Risk-Sharing
Lewis, Karen K. - 2008
Standard theoretical models predict that domestic residents should diversify their portfolios into foreign assets much more than observed in practice. Whether this lack of diversification is important depends upon the potential gains from risk-sharing. General equilibrium models and consumption...
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Rare Disasters, Asset Prices, and Welfare Costs
Barro, Robert J. - 2007
A representative-consumer model with Epstein-Zin-Weil preferences and i.i.d. shocks, including rare disasters, accords with key asset-pricing observations. If the coefficient of relative risk aversion equals 3-4, the model accords with observed equity premia and risk-free real interest rates. If...
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International Capital Flows, Returns and World Financial Integration
Evans, Martin D.D. - 2005
in equity and debt markets. Such developments are often attributed to the increased integration of world financial … markets. We present a model that allows us to examine how greater integration in world financial markets affects the behavior … concentrated in bonds. As integration progresses and households gain access to world equity markets, the size and volatility of …
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Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Returns : Time-Varying Risk Regimes
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2019
We develop an empirical model of exchange rate returns, applied separately to samples of developed (DM) and developing (EM) economies' currencies against the dollar. Monetary policy stance of the global central banks, measured via a natural-language-based approach, has a large effect on exchange...
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