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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a non-normality premium (NNP) to identify the extra return that will compensate an investor for a non-normal return distribution. The NNP quantifies the economic significance of non-normality to complement a statistical significance test of...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse Steel Partners' investments and activism targeting United Industrial, Ronson, and BKF Capital to provide context for the debate surrounding shareholder activism by hedge funds and how incumbent management should cope with it. Steel Partners is one of the...
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Purpose - To evaluate various hedge programs designed to minimize the risk of an extreme monthly gas bill subject to a pre-determined hedge program budget. Design/methodology/approach -Historical data were collected on natural gas spot and futures prices. Also, theoretical options prices were...
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Purpose - The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the use of weather derivatives to hedge firm exposure to previously unmanageable risk events caused by natural phenomenon such as excessive rainfall. Design/methodology/approach - The paper adopts a case study approach to meet the objectives...
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Purpose – In June of 2001, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and Tokyo Gas Supply Company (TGSC) made a zero-cost risk swap contract on the average temperature of August and September of 2001 in Tokyo for their adverse situations. This is an exchange of two options on the average...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the market timing skills displayed by hedge fund managers during the 2007-08 financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The performance of a market timer can be measured through the 1966 Treynor and Mazuy model,...
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Purpose -The paper aims to propose a consistent and robust pricing/hedging methodology for callable fixed income … robust pricing/hedging methodology for callable fixed income structures with embedded caplet-linked options. Practical … Hull-White trees inadequate for the task of consistent pricing and hedging. Therefore, care must be taken to ensure …
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exposure risk. In this regard, several hedging strategies are evaluated and compared with one another. Design … hedge tools brings a much more diversified selection of stock and bond markets than no hedging strategy. The optimal option … optimal forward hedging. In the out-of-sample study, the optimally forward-hedged strategy generally presents a much better …
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firms. A simple model of exposure elasticity is also used to demonstrate the substantial impact of operational hedging on … research has suggested, but is simply the result of the endogeneity of operative and financial hedging at the firm level. Given … that empirical tests estimate exchange exposures net of corporate hedging, both firms with low gross exposures that do not …
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-specific financial hedging and BRV-estimated FXE (but not TWI-estimated FXE), controlling for firm-specific non …-financial/operational hedging, size and industry effects. Moreover, firms in the first and fifth quintiles for measures of value/growth and size …
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