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A Transparency Standard for Derivatives
Acharya, Viral V. - 2013
Derivatives exposures across large financial institutions often contribute to - if not necessarily create - systemic risk. Current reporting standards for derivatives exposures are nevertheless inadequate for assessing these systemic risk contributions. In this paper, I explain how a...
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Are Options on Index Futures Profitable for Risk Averse Investors? Empirical Evidence
Constantinides, George M. - 2014
American options on the S&P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2007) from 1983 to 2006 are identified as potentially profitable trades. Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid prices do, while violations...
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Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices, and the Preference for Skewed Returns
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2007
Human beings want to believe that good outcomes in the future are more likely, but also want to make good decisions that increase average outcomes in the future. We consider a general equilibrium model with complete markets and show that when investors hold beliefs that optimally balance these...
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On the Economic Consequences of Index-Linked Investing
Wurgler, Jeffrey - 2010
Trillions of dollars are invested through index funds, exchange-traded funds, and other index derivatives. The benefits of index-linked investing are well-known, but the possible broader economic consequences are unstudied. I review research which suggests that index-linked investing is...
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Valuation of Variance Forecast with Simulated Option Markets
Engle, Robert F. - 2010
An appropriate metric for the success of an algorithm to forecast the variance of the rate of return on a capital asset could be the incremental profit from substituting it for the next best alternative. We propose a framework to assess incremental profits for competing algorithms to forecast...
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Security Baskets and Index-Linked Securities
Gorton, Gary B. - 2010
Security baskets and index-lined securities are securities whose values are functions of the cash flows or values of other assets. Creation of these "composite" securities would seem to be redundant since investors can cost1ess1y replicate them. In this paper we study the existence and optimal...
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Should Derivatives Be Privileged in Bankruptcy?
Bolton, Patrick - 2011
Derivative contracts, swaps, and repos enjoy "super-senior" status in bankruptcy: they are exempt from the automatic …, even though this risk could be borne more efficiently by derivative counterparties. In addition, because super …-senior derivatives dilute existing creditors, they may lead firms to take on derivative positions that are too large from a social …
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Too-Systemic-To-Fail : What Option Markets Imply About Sector-Wide Government Guarantees
Kelly, Bryan T. - 2011
Investors in option markets price in a substantial collective government bailout guarantee in the financial sector, which puts a floor on the equity value of the financial sector as a whole, but not on the value of the individual firms. The guarantee makes put options on the financial sector...
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FX Counterparty Risk and Trading Activity in Currency Forward and Futures Markets
Levich, Richard M. - 2012
The Global Financial Crisis initiated a period of market turbulence and increased counterparty risk for financial institutions. Even though the Dodd-Frank Act is likely to exempt interbank foreign exchange trading from a central counterparty mandate, market participants have the option to trade...
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The Market for OTC Derivatives
Atkeson, Andrew - 2013
We develop a model of equilibrium entry, trade, and price formation in over-the- counter (OTC) markets. Banks trade derivatives to share an aggregate risk subject to two trading frictions: they must pay a fixed entry cost, and they must limit the size of the positions taken by their traders...
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