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The leverage effect refers to the generally negative correlation between an asset return and its changes of volatility. A natural estimate consists in using the empirical correlation between the daily returns and the changes of daily volatility estimated from high-frequency data. The puzzle lies...
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We propose an empirical implementation of the consumption-investment problem using the martingale representation alternative to dynamic programming. Our method is based on the direct observation of state prices from options data. This greatly simplifies the investor's task of specifying the...
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-expected utility (ambiguity aversion and prospect theory) objectives and characterize their market-timing, horizon effects, and hedging …
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This paper develops and estimates a continuous-time model of a financial market where investors' trading strategies and the specialist's rule of price adjustments are the best response to each other. We examine how far modeling market microstructure in a purely rational framework can go in...
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Adverse shocks to stock markets propagate across the world, with a jump in one region of the world seemingly causing an … increase in the likelihood of a different jump in another region of the world. To capture this effect mathematically, we … Hawkes processes. In the model, a jump in one region of the world or one segment of the market increases the intensity of …
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