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international macroeconomic risk sharing than is possible today. Retail institutions are described that might develop around such … markets and help the public with their risk management. However, the establishment of such markets would also incur the risk …
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Over the course of the nineteenth century, the struggles of Paris Bourse to manage counterparty risk revealed the … regime that limited risk, trading began to migrate off the exchange to less regulated markets …
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. Finally we assess the role of risk, finding little evidence that risk-aversion drives a wedge between market prices and …
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This paper discusses the extent to which derivatives pose threats to firms and to the economy. After reviewing the derivatives markets and putting in perspective the various measures of the size of these markets, the paper shows who uses derivatives and why. The difficulties firms face in...
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I extend the classical general equilibrium treatment of uncertainty about exogenous states of nature to uncertainty about prices. Traders do not know the prices at which markets will clear but have expectations over possible prices. They trade price-contingent securities (derivatives) to insure...
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risk. Current reporting standards for derivatives exposures are nevertheless inadequate for assessing these systemic risk … contributions. In this paper, I explain how a transparency standard, in contrast to the current standard, would facilitate such risk … lack of standardization, they cannot be aggregated to assess the risk to the system. I highlight the important contribution …
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This paper investigates the relation between returns on stock indices and their corresponding futures contracts in order to evaluate potential explanations for the pervasive yet anomalous evidence of positive, short-horizon portfolio autocorrelations. Using a simple theoretical framework, we...
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This paper analyzes the effects of three alternative rules on the long-run distributions of both the spot and futures prices ina single commodity market, in which the key behavioral relationships are derived from the optimizing behavior of producers and speculators.The rules considered include:...
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more general expected utility maximization in continuous time, the assumptions of constant relative risk aversion and joint … discrete time constant relative risk aversion and joint normally distributed asset return assessments are sufficient to yield …
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contracts involving counterparty risk and that they facilitate speculation involving negative views of a firm's financial …
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