Showing 1 - 10 of 578
portfolios could hedge some of the risk of default by taking positions in futures or options markets for residential real estate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774943
government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be …&D investors to better share the pipeline risk associated with FDA approval with broader capital markets. Using historical FDA … from offering them. Using various unique data sources, we find that FDA approval risk has a low correlation across drug …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957388
We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. To create our hedge target, we extract … hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk exposures …. We show that this approach yields parsimonious and industry-balanced portfolios that perform well in hedging innovations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889045
that they would be exposed to risk from fluctuations in their electricity cost. The concern seems to be that a customer … larger than it had budgeted for. I analyze the magnitude of this risk, using demand data from 1142 large industrial customers …, and then ask how much of this risk can be eliminated through various straightforward financial instruments. I find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760642
associated with average returns. We show that the resulting portfolios are likely to capture not only the priced risk associated … with the characteristic, but also unpriced risk. We develop a procedure to remove this unpriced risk using covariance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931218
average risk tolerance across investors. The same constant applies to every real foreign investment held by every investor … market risk premia, an average of world market volatilities, and an average of exchange rate volatilities, where we take the … exchange risk approaches zero, the constant will be equal to one minus the ratio of the variance of the world market return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218727
a simple extension of the long-run risk model … risks. Portfolios hedging macro uncertainty have historically earned zero or even significantly positive returns, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224964
Many people assume that the most significant risk in the housing market is that homeowners are exposed to fluctuations … finds that, even though house price risk endogenously increases with rent risk, the latter empirically dominates for most … households so housing market risk actually increases homeownership rates and house prices. Further, the net effect of rent risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755861
producers' hedging demand (speculators' risk-capacity) increase hedging costs via price-pressure on futures, reduce producers … speculators are capital constrained, and commodity producers have hedging demands for commodity futures. Increases (decreases) in …' inventory holdings, and thus spot prices. Consistent with our model, producers' default risk forecasts futures returns, spot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128612
We investigate the leverage of hedge funds in the time series and cross section. Hedge fund leverage is counter-cyclical to the leverage of listed financial intermediaries and decreases prior to the start of the financial crisis in mid-2007. Hedge fund leverage is lowest in early 2009 when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129223