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Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or … cross-fertilize the academic and practitioner communities, promoting improved market risk measurement technologies that draw … produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfolio-level and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is …
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today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk … to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets … facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk …
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This paper makes three points regarding the proper measurement of the output of financial intermediaries. Two of them … concern the measurement of nominal financial output, especially banking output. First, we show that, to impute the nominal …;the user cost of fundsquot;) for the risk inherent in that corresponding financial transaction. Otherwise, nominal financial …
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Long-run forecasts of economic variables play an important role in policy, planning, and portfolio decisions. We consider long-horizon forecasts of average growth of a scalar variable, assuming that first differences are second-order stationary. The main contribution is the construction of...
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This paper exploits a data rich environment to provide direct econometric estimates of time-varying macroeconomic uncertainty, defined as the common volatility in the unforecastable component of a large number of economic indicators. Our estimates display significant independent variations from...
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We distinguish the measure of risk aversion from the slope coefficient in the linear relationship between the mean … excess return on a stock index and its variance. Even when risk aversion is constant, the latter can vary significantly with …
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discussion of dependency ratios. Two alternative measures of age are explored: mortality risk and remaining life expectancy. With …. In a separate application of age measurement, I examine the consequences of stabilizing labor force participation by age …
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which financial markets were trying to allocate risk between heterogeneous agents when productive investment opportunities … are scarce. We begin by showing how heterogeneity in terms of risk tolerance can cause financial markets to propagate …
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We develop a model of pandemic risk management and firm valuation. We introduce aggregate transmission shocks into an …
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-contribution (DC) plans that typically contain a minimum benefit guarantee (DC-MB). Risk management techniques must be used to control … the Samp;P500. Calculations show that the true risk-adjusted value of unfunded guarantees in a realistic DC-MB plan equals … 'basis risk' if they chose a non-standard portfolio. However, for large conversions from DB to DC-MB plans, in which there is …
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