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We study the properties of the carry trade, a currency speculation strategy in which an investor borrows low-interest-rate currencies and lends high-interest-rate currencies. This strategy generates payoffs which are on average large and uncorrelated with traditional risk factors. We argue that...
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Given a European derivative security with an arbitrary payoff function and a corresponding set of" underlying securities on which the derivative security is based, we solve the dynamic replication problem: find a" self-financing dynamic portfolio strategy involving only the underlying securities...
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the practical relevance of our network pricing approach, we apply it to the pricing and delta-hedging of S&P 500 futures …
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comparable to that of returns in stock markets. Evidence is shown that there may be only minimal possibility of cross hedging … examined. Such markets, by allowing hedging of these aggregate income risks, might make for dramatically more effective …
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volatility associated with current dynamic hedging strategies. There will thus be less information transmitted to those people … trades implied by the dynamic hedging strategies, In effect, the stocks' future price volatility can rise because of a … current lack of information about the extent to which dynamic hedging strategies are in place …
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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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We study a firm that justifies its novel use of equity derivatives as a cash-flow hedging strategy. Our purpose is to … hedging concepts articulated by Froot, Scharfstein and Stein (1993). In applying the theory to practice, there are lessons for …
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We study how risk management through hedging impacts firms and competition among firms in the life insurance industry … face costly external finance increase hedging after staggered state-level financial reform that reduces the costs of … hedging. Post reform impacted firms have lower risk and fewer negative income shocks. Product market competition is also …
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Liquidity risk in banking has been attributed to transactions deposits and their potential to spark runs or panics. We show instead that transactions deposits help banks hedge liquidity risk from unused loan commitments. Bank stock-return volatility increases with unused commitments, but the...
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